Importance Quotes - Page 18

• Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.

  John Hancock

  Christian, Wise, Encouragement

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• Nothing is more important than a good education.

  Roy Wilkins

  Important, Good Education

  Roy Wilkins, Tom Mathews (1982). “Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins”, Viking Adult

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• I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Hero, Kids, Land

  "The Genius of Jobs" by Walter Isaacson, www.nytimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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• We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another - for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every cell, every human being, is of equal importance and has work to do in this world

  Peace Pilgrim

  Cells, Differences, People

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.50, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.

  Ann Landers

  Self, Faces, Maintaining

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

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• It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.

  William Osler

  Brother, Dark, Age

  Sir William Osler (1932). “Aequanimitas”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Underestimate, Humans

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.130, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement

  John Hancock

  Christian, Encouragement, Order

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• The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ...[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Land, Yellow

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• We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Zealous, Want

  Theodore Roosevelt (1970). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt ...: With Portrait Frontispiece ...”

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• All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Real, School

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• I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Self

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• Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Self

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• What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

  Dave Barry

  War, Humorous, Painful Death

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• President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.

  Dana Milbank

  Sacrifice, Talking, Iraq

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• I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is important.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Book, Thinking, Important

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• We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Important, May, Privacy

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• Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Development, World, Territory

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• In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.

  William Sargant

  Guilt, Conflict, Confession

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• The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the execution itself. All three stages are governed by the will. The will is rooted in character, and for the man of action character is of more critical importance than intellect. Intellect without will is worthless, will without intellect is dangerous.

  Hans von Seeckt

  Military, Character, Men

  Hans von Seeckt (1930). “Thoughts of a Soldier”

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• The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

  Irving Kahn

  Mean, Taught, Losing

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• I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

  Ishmael Beah

  Boys, Imagination, Age

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• What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Long, People, Important

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• Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working.

  Keeth Smart

  Thinking, Knowing, Opponents

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• In order to make room for more of God in our life, we need to let go of things that are currently filling our heart and reorder the things that are not ordered properly in Him. The importance of an appropriate detachment from the things of the world-or as they sometimes speak of it, the putting of our lives into the right-is stressed by all the spiritual writers.

  Ralph Martin

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Heart

  Ralph Martin (2006). “The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints”, p.203, Emmaus Road Publishing

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