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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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"If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated."
"There is nothing bigger and more important than a person's calling."
"Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain."
"I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher."
"Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty."
"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's the level that allows us each to live our own chosen lives. But I notice not everyone agrees with the primary importance of that level, and I try to account for how they don't."
"Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger."
"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?"
"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 real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."
"Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted."
"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony."
"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."
"For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting."
"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."
"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
"If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from."
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