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• Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!

  Fidel Castro

  Mean, Ideas, Important

  Fidel Castro (2006). “Che: A Memoir”, p.91, Ocean Press

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• The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself.

  Billy Bishop

  Military, Fighting, Flying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock.

  Werner Molders

  Victory, Important, Pilots

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• The most important thing is that you actually care, that you do something to the very best of your ability

  Jonathan Ive

  Important, Care, Ability

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• Money isn't the most important thing. It is important, of course. I am not Mahatma Gandhi.

  Jurgen Klopp

  Important, Courses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.

  Paul Strand

  Photography, Important, World

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• Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Mom, Attitude, Parent

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• What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? What I tried to leave my students with is the view that the invisible hand is more powerful than the hidden hand. Things will happen in well-organized efforts without direction, controls, plans. That's the consensus among economists. That's the Hayek legacy.

  Lawrence Summers

  Powerful, Views, Hands

  "The Commanding Heights". Book by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, 1998.

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• I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

  Robert B. Parker

  Giving Up, Son, Boys

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• The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing, then style is doubly definitive, because style describes the doing.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Things In Life, What Matters

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.13, Bantam

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• The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Life, Motivational, Leadership

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• Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback - about what works and what doesn't. If you don't do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve.

  Jack Canfield

  Jobs, Training, Important

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• Define yourself radically as one beloved by God.  This is the true self.  Every other identity is illusion.  God's love for you and his choice of you constitute your worth.  Accept that, and let it become the most important thing in your life.

  Brennan Manning

  Self, Choices, Important

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• Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Ideas, Important, Shapes

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• I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.

  Mario Lemieux

  Past, Years, Play

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• We don't know what's going to happen this summer or who's going to be here next year. We have no control over any of that. So, we're going to play our [22 remaining] games and do the best we can and show up for the New York Knick fans. That's the most important thing.

  Jalen Rose

  Summer, New York, Years

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• If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

  Seth Godin

  Important, World, Information

  "Seth Godin: Mark Cuban Is Completely Wrong About Aggregators" by Steve Rosenbaum, www.businessinsider.com. February 10, 2010.

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• Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.

  Carlo Ancelotti

  Football, Important, World

  "American Dream: Can the U.S. men's soccer team ever win a World Cup?" by Henry Young, Kate Riley, edition.cnn.com. March 24, 2016.

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• The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from.

  Frank Lucas

  Honesty, Integrity, Hard Work

  "Fictional character: Frank Lucas". "American Gangster", 2007.

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• All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Lying, Things In Life, Important

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• If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most important thing) about ourselves, each other and our world. This is because the most important truths about us and them, is that we have been created by the Lord, and utterly depend upon him for our continued existence.

  Alvin Plantinga

  Our World, Important, Firsts

  Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.217, Oxford University Press

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• My career has always been one of the most important things, but after having a baby you find that it drops down on the totem pole.

  Marion Jones

  Baby, Careers, Important

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• I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

  Dean Kamen

  Thinking, Important, Can Do

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• The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.

  Donald Knuth

  Nice, House, Important

  Interview with Jack Woehr, Dr. Dobb's Journal, April 1996.

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• The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, Keys, Important

  "Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands". Book by Cathryn Berger Kaye, Philippe Cousteau, 2010.

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