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“The Government honoring our treaties and sovereignty is first and foremost. These issues are still the top priority which [Barak] Obama, if elected, has promised us. For us, we should implement the most impor-tant programs right now: they are programs to teach the children a positive sense of dignity, self-worth, and the importance of sustaining their culture, history, language and honor as a people.”

“I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.”

People World Seems Asks Greater Tradition Importance Ask Me Music Business

Author:Billy Corgan

“I felt it was vital to stress the importance of national security in this debate and the need for a clear path to our exit from the European Union. I hope I have achieved both these objectives.”

Needs Felt Path Clear Security Importance Stress Unions Debate Objectives National Security Exit European Union

Author:Liam Fox

“My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role.”

Want Passion Roles Projects Treats Importance My Passion

Author:Danielle Cormack

“I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of natural therapies, by focusing attention on lifestyle issues, by looking at worthwhile aspects of alternative medicine. Many people have been threatened by that. Doctors especially tend to think that they know everything about the human body, and don't realize that medical education has really omitted many very important subjects.”

“Although every pain has different degrees of importance, I go through all of the emotions - from crying, anger, bitterness, anxiety, etc. Feel it all. But by the end of the day, I am on my knees in prayer. The next day, I get up refreshed and begin to let it go.”

Feels Different Ends Pain Next Prayer Emotion Cry Degrees Anxiety Importance Get Up Knees The End Of The Day Etc Bitterness Next Day Let It Go

Author:Renee Lawless

“I came into politics because of a real childhood concern about the Cold War. So to me the importance of the nuclear deterrent is actually really ingrained in me.”

War Real Childhood Cold Concern Importance Nuclear Cold War Deterrent

Author:Andrea Leadsom

“I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.”

Mind Humans Self Form Religious Authority Importance Regard Temper Skeptical Of My Mind Self-importance

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“When you don't put your initials behind your name, and I've got tons of them, and when you talk about storytelling or love or gratitude, you're diminishing your legitimacy and importance in this world.”

World Names Behinds This World Gratitude Importance Storytelling Initials Legitimacy

Author:Brené Brown

“As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has.”

Ifs Thinking Soul Ends Fans Football Huge Importance Killing My Soul Desert Soccer Islands Fuel Without Music Killing Myself Soccer Fans

Author:Joe Elliott

“My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed that anything was possible with hard work, and they particularly stressed the importance of education. They instilled that same belief in my sister and me.”

Littles Hard Belief Parent Poor Teacher College Hard Work Grew Grew Up Importance My Sister Stressed Importance Of Education Poor Family

Author:Samuel Alito

“Carolyn Maloney has extensive - she's shown over and over again her creativity, her determination, her tenacity in fighting for women's rights. She has passed a host of bills in many different areas, both national and global, with both national and global importance for women, and she's on a Chair of Finance Committee so essentially in this economic crisis, we thought she would be perfect.”

Different Would Be Fighting Perfect Creativity Rights Economic Areas Determination Importance Crisis Bills Finance Chairs Host Womens Rights Committees Tenacity Economic Crisis

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the world. Ironically, you're the super secret enemy. Whether lay or householder, everyone has that internal enemy.”

World Important Self Secret Enemy Illusion Importance Lays Internals Sense Of Self Self-importance

Author:Robert Thurman

“I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.”

Knows Feels Believe Self I Believe Importance Seeking I Believe In Self Knowledge Empowered

Author:Gisele Bundchen

“What crystallized the importance of speaking out like that - of making nonviolence not just a tool or a tactic, but a way of life - was in San Diego [at Comic-Con]. One of the young girls who marched with us was wearing a hijab, and she came up to me afterward because I talked about my beard, and I talked about why I was doing it, and she came up and she gave me a hug, and she was crying. And she said, "Thank you. You have no idea how the other students treat me because they're shown that this is OK by Donald Trump. Thank you for speaking out."”

Way Said Ideas Young Girl Cry Students Trump Tools Treats Importance Comic No Idea Nonviolence Hug Tactics Beard Speaking Out San Diego Comic Con Hijab

Author:Andrew Aydin

“I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.”

Process Goal Democracy Essentials Ultimate Importance Believer Firm Ultimate Goal

Author:Dalai Lama

“I cannot stress the importance of pausing to take a few deep breaths throughout the day. It's simple and effective.”

Simple Importance Stress Breaths Deep Breath Pausing

Author:Nikki DeLoach

“We have emphasized the importance of applied action research because it allows evidence-based policy and program development and a focus on learning. We are also committed to using a participatory approach in which local people, local program managers and providers, local researchers, women's health activists, and national decision-makers play the leading role. International "experts" from technical assistance agencies or universities can make important contributions, but they certainly don't have all the answers.”

“The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security. A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.”

“I think that we're always gonna be in a position as Republicans and as conservatives where we gotta be willing to stand up for our conservative values. And certainly, you know, at the top of that list is a strong national defense, the importance of a United States military that is superior to all others in the world.”

“Family reunification has been an essential aspect of these policies.Many of those who are brought in, in terms of families, have become actively involved. They open small stores, play a significant role in the economy. The families and the importance of family unity are extremely important.”

Has Beens Important Play Term Roles Economy Policy Involved Essentials Aspect Importance Unity Stores Significant Importance Of Family Reunification

Author:Edward Kennedy

“The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly from one to another. It almost seems as if all we have to do to convey an idea into the mind of another is to convey a sound into his ear. Thus imparting knowledge gets assimilated to a purely physical process.”

Ifs Mind May Ideas Seems Language Causes Process Sound Common Ears Importance Notion Chiefs Gaining Knowledge

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those they direct.”

Action Danger Development Direct Importance Engaged Overlooking

Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“Everybody puts importance in money on a film set.”

Film Importance Film Set

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Another point is that ultimately, as far as the budget is concerned, of major importance is who offers more money during the bidding that must be organized as a part of the privatization process. In this sense, we cannot discriminate against any market participants, not one of them, but this is not relevant at the moment, as the Government has decided to postpone the privatization of Bashneft.”

Moments Government Process Offers Majors Concerned Decided Importance Budgets Organized Relevant More Money Participants Bidding Privatization

Author:Vladimir Putin

“When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.”

People Thinking World Heart Different Darkness Racism Standing Importance Convinced Different Worlds Erudition Heart Of Darkness

Author:Chinua Achebe

“There is a certain increase in the importance I assign to women in getting us out of the mess that we are in, which is a reflection of the role of women in my traditional culture - that they do not interfere in politics until men really make such a mess that the society is unable to go backward or forward. Then women will move in.”

Men Moving Certain Culture Roles Reflection Importance Increase Traditional Mess Interfere

Author:Chinua Achebe

“I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of a hat and so on, is not too good; I think it might have a bad effect on a great many of the young poets. They - to quote Mark Twain - "swap juices" a little too much, so that they are in danger of losing their own identity and don't give themselves time enough in which to work out what's really of importance to them - they're too busy.”

Thinking Giving Littles Enough Might Today Young Too Much Effects Danger Identity College Poet Losing Happenings Importance Mark Busy Work Out Great Men Hats Juice Too Busy Rushing Lecturing

Author:Conrad Aiken

“In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and, if necessary, rework our conception of human importance, but also to ensure that our best conception is indeed the lens through which we look at our fellow human beings.”

Ifs Humans Looks Human Beings Effort Focus Ethics Standing Importance Fellows Obligation Conception Lenses Rework

Author:Alice Crary

“We need to value the importance of simplicity, focus and living according to our values.”

Needs Values Vision Focus Importance Simplicity

Author:John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio

“It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon framing hypotheses with the greatest possible freedom from dogmatic prejudice. And if these were the really important things in life, physics would be an essential study for everybody.”

“There is great significance and importance in all our day-to-day actions in both words and deeds.”

Inspirational Action Importance Deeds Significance Day To Day

Author:Jennifer Youngs

“Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.”

Important Book Social Process Levels Results Acceptance Activity Highest Aspect Importance Stress Mathematics Proof Accepted Psychological Components Reproduction

Author:Alexandre Borovik

“Pure mathematics offers no mercenary inducements to its followers, who is attracted to it by the importance and beauty of the truths in contains; and the complete absence of any material advantage to be gained by means of it, adds perhaps another charm to its study.”

Mean Study Materials Offers Pure Advantage Importance Mathematics Add Absence Charm Followers Mercenary

Author:James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

“The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.”

Should Decision Effort Importance

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“When a putter is waiting his turn to hole out a putt of one or two feet in length, on which the match hangs at the last hole, it is of vital importance that he think of nothing. At this supreme moment he ought to fill his mind with vacancy. He must not even allow himself the consolation of religion.”

Thinking Mind Two Moments Lasts Turns Waiting Feet Ought Importance Golf Supreme Holes Length Consolation Vacancy

Author:Charles Walter Simpson

“We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action.”

Reason Problem Action Strong Powerful Emotion Quality Importance Intuition Contrary Impulse No Reason Stakes Powerful Emotions

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be able to read to save their soul. That idea got transposed into an idea of the importance of literacy for democratic citizenship.”

Firsts Ideas Soul Able Ideals Universal Importance Democratic West Citizenship Literacy Protestants

Author:Robert Hass

“No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.”

Certain Growing Revolution Activity Mass Importance Raised Wave Expected Reactions October Disillusionment Inevitability Factions Vanguard October Revolution

Author:Leon Trotsky

“I don't rule anything out, and I couldn't underscore more the importance of what YES! is doing to show that there are people who are pushing the edge of hope, who are stepping into the unknown and taking risks, because that will then enable others to do the same.”

People Shows Risk Importance Edges Pushing Taking Risks

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.”

Firsts Matter Moral Figures Ought Tasks Importance Plunge

Author:Allen W. Wood

“In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened to be the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century. I would like to think that I could emulate at least his modesty - his refusal to exaggerate his perception of himself and his place in the larger scheme of things - even if my work never compares with his in its importance.”

Ifs Thinking Men Found Chance Simple Moral Happened Century Honest Perception Importance Philosopher Compare Modesty Schemes Acquaintance Twentieth Century Refusal Honest Man Emulate

Author:Allen W. Wood

“In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.”

Writing Issues Subjects Importance Careful Abandon Dysfunction

Author:Eden Robinson

“The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.”

Thinking World Writing Doubt Importance

Author:Frederick Busch

“Luther and the Reformation were of fundamental importance to Denmark. We Danes are still Lutherans today. We spoke about him a lot in school, and we feel very close to him.”

Feels Stills Today School Importance Fundamentals Spokes Luther Reformation Denmark Lutherans

Author:Margrethe II of Denmark

“At this point in history, the desperate need for building a sustainable society and for managing energy usage makes for a really - of vast importance that we need to place on where we live and how we live in those places.”

Needs Energy Building Importance Desperate Usage

Author:Jonathon Keats

“Believe in the importance of your art.”

Believe Art Importance

Author:Theodora Goss

“I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.”

Way Doe Two Jobs Dies Understanding Simple Late Shadow Importance Categories Overwhelming Bob Songwriters Dylan

Author:Steve Earle

“When you finish something of great importance to you and then it's over, you're left with this giant hole.”

Left Importance Holes Giants Over You

Author:Taylor Momsen

“Even if you close your eyes, you'll still hear Donald Trump sniffing. Linguists might call [these visuals] paralinguistics, every form of information including facial gestures and facial features. Obviously these things get scrutinized in tremendous detail, so that a cough can be of outsized importance. [But] that's all part of the package.”

Ifs Stills Might Eye Form Information Trump Importance Including Details Features Visuals Gestures Packages Facial Linguists Sniffing Facial Features

Author:Ben Zimmer

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