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"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
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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."

"Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty."

"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."

"I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child."

"You already have the most important tool which is work."

"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."

"As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda."

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

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


"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."


"The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me."


"The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals."


"Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit."


"If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker."


"The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth."


"The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false."
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