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"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."

"When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."

"Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed."

"Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain."

"The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe."

"For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources."

"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."

"You already have the most important tool which is work."

"Little things matter. Even a small tear wets the face."

"The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security."
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."

"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."

"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."

"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."

"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike."

"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
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