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• Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Running, Thinking

  "Minority Report".

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• I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Educational

  "Conversation: Chuck Close, Christopher Finch". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 2, 2010.

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• And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo's talent for listening.

  Michael Ende

  Mean, Heart, People

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• an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

  Anne Rice

  Natural, Intoxication, Forbidden

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.710, Ballantine Books

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• About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Animal, Wander

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• That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.

  Albert Pike

  Lasts, Life Is, Effects

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.

  Colin Powell

  Organization, Persons

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• Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

  Perry Brass

  Fashion, Art, Indispensable

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.29, Perry Brass

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• I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.

  Shimon Peres

  Stronger, Weakness, Public Opinion

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter to our bottom line or our spiritual selves. How many of us are tempted, in business, to make a less-than-ethical decision? To appropriate someone else's idea or fudge some numbers? We have to remember that maintaining our ethical and spiritual selves is absolutely linked with achieving the degree of success we're working toward.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Thinking, Ideas

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• The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

  Frank Knight

  Truth, Essentials, Problem

  Frank H. Knight, Ross B. Emmett (1999). “Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 2: Laissez Faire: Pro and Con”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Brother, Giving, Matter

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• There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political questions of our century, it should have been this seemingly small and unimportant Jewish problem that had the dubious honor of setting the whole infernal machine in motion.

  Hannah

  Should Have, Political, Honor

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• I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.

  G. H. Hardy

  Good Man, Example, Waste

  "Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work". Book by G. H. Hardy, 1940.

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• Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

  Tim Ferriss

  Goal, Focus, Doubt

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

  Iggy Pop

  Art, Details, Happens

  "Iggy Pop criticises U2's free album ploy" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2014.

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• Don`t make unimportant things important

  Dai Vernon

  Unimportant Things, Important

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• What I was is unimportant, what I am now is important.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Important

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• Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.

  Kris Saknussemm

  Interesting, Mind, Communicate

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• We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.

  Brenda Ueland

  Reading, Talking, Listening

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such examples that there is no such thing in life as unimportant moments devoid of meaning for the future?

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Things In Life, Example, Deeds

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• A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what she is. There is a certainirreducible if elusive core. Pushing, pulling, stretching, and shrinking will not really change it. There may be spectacular interim results. The baby may say the alphabet before she walks, master two-times or even ten-times table at three. In the long run, however, this forced precocity tends to be irrelevant. . . . Whatever gains there are become unimportant. The losses can be irrevocable.

  Stella Chess

  Running, Baby, Children

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• New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.

  Agnes Smedley

  New York, Destiny, Hopeful

  Agnes Smedley (2011). “Daughter of Earth”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mistake, People, Political

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• It cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces 'art' or not. Its own basic laws, not the opinions of art critics, will provide the only valid measure of its future worth.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Photography, Art, Law

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