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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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"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."

"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."

"As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda."

"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."

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

"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally."

"Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs."
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"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."

"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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