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"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
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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."
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"For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song."
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"It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit."
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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?"
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"The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant."
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"It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance."
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"I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance."
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"The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability."
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"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."
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"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
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"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
Knowledge


"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."
Science


"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
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"The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand."
Accuracy


"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
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"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
Error


"It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions."
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"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
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"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."
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"The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses."
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