Quotes by 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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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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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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To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
Source: Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895 -
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) -
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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