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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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"Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?"

"It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance."

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

"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."

"Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain."

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

"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."

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

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."

"Little things matter. Even a small tear wets the face."
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"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."


"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."


"Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off."


"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."


"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."


"If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from."


"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony."
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