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"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."
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"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."

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

"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."

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

"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."

"I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher."

"The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security."
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"Principles are only tools in the hands of God they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful."

"Therefore let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers' (Rom 13.1). The Christian must not be drawn to the bearers of high office; his calling is to stay below. The higher power are over him, and he must remain under them. The world exercises dominion, the Christian serves, and thus he shares the earthly lot of his Lord, who became a servant. 'For there is no power but of God.' (Mark 10.42-45) These words are addressed to the Christians, not to the powers."

"God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God."

"While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task."

"As far as we are concerned, there is no dislike, no personal tension, no disunity or strife that cannot be overcome by intercessory prayer. Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day."

"The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them."

"A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner."
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