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

"For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song."

"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."

"With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use."

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

"It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit."

"For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources."

"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."

"Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it."

"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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"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."


"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."


"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment."


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


"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."


"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."


"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."
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