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"For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced."
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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."
"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
"It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
"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."
"The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old."
"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."
"The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability."
"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
"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."
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"Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery."
"Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science."
"Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago."
"It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis."
"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."
"If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress."
"For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced."
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