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"The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other."

"The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized."

"There is nothing bigger and more important than a person's calling."

"The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant."

"I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance."

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

"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."

"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."

"I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child."

"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."
Explore more quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."

"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."

"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."

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
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