Unimportant Quotes - Page 9

There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Men, Differences, Interesting

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What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

H. L. Mencken

Body, Professors, Function

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What is important, what isn't important, and how do you clean yourself from all of the unimportant things. And then you can be content, and feel good with life, which is metaphorically speaking, "walking on water."

Eytan Fox

Unimportant Things, Water, Feel Good

"Exploring Masculinity and Modern Views of Israeli’s, Eytan Fox Discusses 'Walk on Water'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2005.

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It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.

Alexis de Tocqueville

True Friend, Sacrifice, Rights

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A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals. Small wins are controllable opportunities that produce visible results.

Karl E. Weick

Winning, Opportunity, Opponents

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If sex isn't an important part of your marriage, you can't beef if your wife or husband does this unimportant thing with somebody else every once in a while, if you have no interest in it.

Dan Savage

Sex, Husband, Unimportant Things

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol. That evening, the dark flat streets of New York, the tomorrow of work, the milk bottle dropped and broken in her sink, became unimportant. She flung herself on her bed and drew a line with a pencil on a piece of paper. And another line, carefully, and another. A world was born around her, like a bright forest with a million shimmering leaves.

Patricia Highsmith

New York, Dark, Broken

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Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.

Henry Miller

Funny, Sexy, Good Sex

Sexus ch. 21 (1949)

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To follow your life's guidance, you may have to reassign some seemingly important things to 'unimportant.' If you believe that pleasing your horrible boss or having a spotless house is a higher priority than playing with your children or sleeping off the flu, be prepared for a long and strenuous battle against destiny. Also, be prepared to lose.

Martha Beck

Children, Believe, Sleep

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Chavez's oil is unimportant for Bolivia... We are not dependent on Venezuela. We complement each other. Venezuela shares its wealth with other countries, but that doesn't make us subordinate.

Evo Morales

Country, Oil, Bolivia

Source: www.spiegel.de

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All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.

George S. Patton

Jobs, Real, Hero

Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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It is Allah's word just as it is in the Koran. We are also not allowed to translate it. It is unimportant whether what it says is well received or not. We are not allowed to question even a single word.

Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

Single Word, Wells, Translate

Source: www.spiegel.de

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At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.

Alison Croggon

Summer, Blue, Goats

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Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

Bill Gates

People, Microsoft, Company

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... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

Laura Riding

Curious, Happenings

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Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.

Tom Hodgkinson

Men, Thinking, Self

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On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there are no more positions to take, no certainties, no facts. Many people find this confusing about my films; they say I am hiding out behind irony. But from a cosmic viewpoint, it is eternally unimportant whether one lives or not.

Peter Greenaway

Believe, Views, Hands

Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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There is nothing unimportant in the universe.

Ruth Bernhard

Universe

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Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

Judith Martin

Mistake, Grace, Wonderful

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Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

Laozi

Love, Self, World

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

Franz von Papen

Fate, Names, Germany

"Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 2, p. 919, 1946.

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I fish because I love to . . . because I love the environs where trout are found . . . because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don’t want to waste the trip . . . and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant––and not nearly so much fun.

John D. Voelker

Fun, Men, Fishing

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I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.

Joseph Stalin

Party, Important, Vote

"The Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary" by Boris Bazhanov, Saint Petersburg, 1992.

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Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

Pete Waterman

Giving, Want, What You Want

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Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

Ernst Mach

Men, Light, Doubt

Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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