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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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"I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child."
"The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe."
"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."
"I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher."
"Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain."
"Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny."
"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."
"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."
"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
"There is nothing bigger and more important than a person's calling."
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"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."
"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."
"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."
"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."
"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
"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 who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it."
"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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