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• There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Men, Yield, Psychology

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• When we come to the end of our days, the little things will seem so unimportant compared to how well we've loved, laughed and treasured our lives and loved ones.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Life And Love, Littles, Little Things

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• The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Men, Ideas

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• What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

  Warren Buffett

  Important, Want, Forget

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• There's nothing like a deadline to get the old blood flowing. All the juices, really. It doesn't follow, if you think about it. You'd assume certain things ... certain activities ... would become unimportant. Certain betrayals would become unbearable. But they don't really. In fact, quite the opposite. Everything takes on a new light. The impossible becomes possible, desirable even. It's quite remarkable.

  Walter Wykes

  Betrayal, Thinking, Opposites

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• When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Thinking, Young

  Source: collider.com

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• I was in a state of shock, because I have never seen the pope talk about something as unimportant as Donald Trump. OK? And I was like, the pope is talking about me? This can't be happening. And then I said, is it good or bad? They said it's bad.

  Donald Trump

  Talking, Pope, States

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Important, Belief, Radical

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the equation when you are making a movie. The director really is in charge. Actors are as important or unimportant as the rest of the people around them.

  Julia Stiles

  People, Important, Acting

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

  Mark Shields

  School, Emphasis, Charter

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I never talk about things that don't matter. I never talk about things that are unimportant. I always talk about things that interest me.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Interest

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Beauty, Real, Ideas

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• Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Friendship, Appreciation, Heart

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Years, People, Justice

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• It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.

  Robert Orben

  Jobs, Important, Days Off

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• Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Growing Up, Crazy

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• Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Taken, Caring, Granted

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

  Beverly Cleary

  School, Thinking, Two

  Beverly Cleary, Paul O. Zelinsky (1995). “Strider”

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• A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels is only petty and unimportant. He utters the same ordinary words.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Strong, Passion, Men

  Tadeusz Borowski (1976). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Sleep, Dark, Self

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.103, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

  David Mamet

  Stories, Made, Certain

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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• Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

  Neil Postman

  Revolution, Computer, Nonsense

  Neil Postman (2011). “Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology”, p.156, Vintage

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• Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everythingin every possible way. The reason for ensuring that that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and goodmen, need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we do need to remember that it is necessary.

  Salman Rushdie

  Voice, Talking, Want

  "Is Nothing Sacred?" (1990)

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• One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Christian, Religious, Political

  Stephen L. Carter (1993). “The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion”, Basic Books

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• All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Important, Failing

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