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The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling. Daisaku Ikeda
Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes adn inclinations is the most important consideration. Agatha Christie
The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the United States is absolutely serious. The jihadists have in the past bragged that America is too feeble and corrupt to fight. A lot is involved in disproving that delusion on their part. Christopher Hitchens
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process. Henry James
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important..."
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. Arthur Conan Doyle
Haruki Murakami quote: "You like to write. It's the single most important quality for..."
You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough. Haruki Murakami
Abraham Lincoln quote: "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is..."
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. Abraham Lincoln
I do not know where I can find a better place than just here, to make mention of one or two other things, which to me seem important, as in printed form establishing in all respects the reasonableness of the whole story of the White Whale, more especially the catastrophe. For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error. So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints... Herman Melville
Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do. Dave Eggers
John Irving quote: "Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment..."
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule. John Irving
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. Epictetus
One age cannot bind itself, and thus conspire, to place a succeeding one in a condition whereby it would be impossible for the later age to expand its knowledge (particularly where it is so very important), to rid itself of errors, and generally to increase its enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, whose essential destiny lies precisely in such progress; subsequent generations are thus completely justified in dismissing such agreements as unauthorized and criminal. The... Immanuel Kant
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert Einstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the..."
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones. Ludwig Wittgenstein
For some of us books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small flat rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world worlds that sing to you comfort and quiet or excite you.” — Anne Lamott Anne Lamott

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