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"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
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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."
"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."
"What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago."
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"A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated."
"Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other."
"There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that."
"At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands."
"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment."
"We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on."
"After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year."
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