Quotes: importance
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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
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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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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
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Any move made in a state of tension will be of more important, and will have more results, than it would have made in a state of eqilibrium. In times of maximum tension this importance will rise to an infinite degree.
Source: On War (1832)
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By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.
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Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
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