Important Quotes - Page 39

• It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

  Agatha Christie

  Mistake, Men, Leisure

  Agatha Christie (2010). “The Labours of Hercules (Poirot)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Knows, Important Things

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Neglect, Educate, One Thing

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Needs, Littles, Leisure

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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  Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

  Margaret Sanger

  Women, Goal, Firsts

  "Morality and Birth Control". "Birth Control Review", (pp. 11, 14), February-March 1918.

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• An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.

  Jules Verne

  Doe, Matter, Englishmen

  1873 Around the World in Eighty Days.

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• The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Heart, Sight

  "Eric: A Novel of Discworld". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?

  Robertson Davies

  Stupid, Father, Age

  "Haunted by Halloween". The New York Times, October 31, 1990.

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• For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important.

  Sally Field

  Character, Thinking, Years

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• Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Order, Suffering Of Others

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.64, Penguin

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• It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either takes place between two subjects, whether they react equally upon each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or partially, or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs. But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Mean, Two, Three

  "Pragmatism (1907)". "The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings". Book edited by the Peirce Edition Project, Volume 2, p. 411, 1998.

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• Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important.

  George Ade

  Importance, Meekness, Knows

  George Ade (1904). “True Bills”

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• It's important to focus on the solution, not the problem.

  Donald Trump

  Focus, Problem, Solutions

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• How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

  Dean Acheson

  Country, Usa, Champion

  "Civil Rights in the USA, 1863-1980". Book by David Paterson, Susan Willoughby, Doug Willoughby, 2001.

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• Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.

  Charlie Parker

  Liars, Years, Play

  "Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It". Book edited by by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, p. 379, 1955.

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• For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.

  Aaron Copland

  Forever, Sound, Elements

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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• His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but we are helped to understand him when we learn that he asserted, and to the end of his life maintained, his belief in an Almighty Creator and Upholder of the Universe. It did, indeed, at a later period suit the purposes of his enemies, exasperated by his tolerant spirit and his reforming plans, to proclaim him an atheist; but that sort of charge has been the commonest of missiles against troublesome thinkers in all times.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Atheist, Effort, Enemy

  "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, pp. 167-168, 1915.

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• This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in the nineteenth, had resulted, under the Orleans Regency and Louis XV, in ruin to France financially and morally, had culminated in the utter destruction of all prosperity, the rooting out of great numbers of the most important industries, and the grinding down of the working people even to starvation.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Numbers, Law, People

  "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 169-170, 1915.

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• Absolutely. I think, I think the American people, at their core, are a decent people. I think that we still have prejudice in our midst, but I think that the vast majority of Americans are willing, are willing to judge people on the basis of their ideas and their character. And in the case of the presidency, I think what's most important is whether the American people think that you understand their hopes and dreams and struggles and whether they think you can actually help them achieve those hopes and dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Struggle, Character

  "CNN Newsroom" with Kyra Phillips and Don Lemon, www.cnn.com. December 11, 2006.

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• When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.

  Marlon Brando

  Beach, Stars, Lying

  New York Times, July 2, 2004.

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• You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Men, Thinking, Different

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

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• What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.

  Susan Glaspell

  Past, Men, Feels

  Susan Glaspell (1912). “Lifted Masks”

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• Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.

  Jane Goodall

  Today, Meat, Roles

  "Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating". Book by Gail Hudson, Gary McAvoy, Jane Goodall, 2006.

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• It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to be dealt with directly as such. No more critical task can be projected for the 1970s than that of seeking for civilized society a new, elevated set of value guidelines more suited to man's expanded numbers and new powers over nature, a frame of reference for value priorities that will act to secure and conserve our world instead of destroying it.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Powerful, Men, Numbers

  "Science and the Problem of Values". Book by Roger Wolcott Sperry, p. 119, 1972.

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• What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.

  Hal Abelson

  Technology, What's Important, Process

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