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"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."
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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."
"For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song."
"Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method."
"With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use."
"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
"Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it."
"I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction."
"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."
"Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role."
"As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda."
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"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."
"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."
"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."
"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."
"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."
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