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"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."
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"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."
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"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."
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"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
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"There is nothing bigger and more important than a person's calling."
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"It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance."
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"I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance."
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"It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
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"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."
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"Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty."
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"I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are."
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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."
Wisdom
"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."
Mind
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
Thought
"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."
Death
"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
Expression
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
Art
"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."
Nature
"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows."
Wisdom
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
Civilization
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure."
Art
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