“It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.” ImportantAmericaRememberCultureLiteratureDemocracySeriousRussiaGermanyJapanLatinThinkerLatin AmericaCompatible Author:Natan Sharansky
“Amoebas are quite obviously widely spread protozoans and some of them have been established as causing serious disease in animals and humans. It is also quite well-established that amoebas are important contaminants of tissue cultures used in preparation of live biologicals, vaccines being the most important of them because they are widely injected into small babies and children.” HumansWellsChildrenHas BeensImportantUsedCultureAnimalSeriousBabyDiseaseSpreadPreparationVaccinesTissuesHumans And Animals Author:Viera Scheibner
“Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.” MayImportantLife IsWishSexSeriousMadnessBe YouMirthSolemnityNeckties Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.” ThinkingImportantPlayFeelingsDreamRolesSeriousCommunicationTricksSurprisingFrivolousPunPlay On Words Book:The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
“China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.” ShouldImportantStatesEffortFourSeriousMembersDiseaseBirdOrganizationChinaRussiaTargetCombatCooperationAsianFluPreventionInfectious DiseasesBird Flu Author:Wen Jiabao
“The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I honestly never expected to see this book in English), but by far its greatest attraction is the intelligence and more important the wisdom of its author. It's a towering achievement no serious reader should miss.” WorldShouldHas BeensImportantBookMissingSeriousReaderAchievementLaborTransformationCriticalAttractionExpectedHonestlyTranslate Author:Steve Donoghue
“Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.” WorldTryingImportantIdeasFeelingsPoetryLiteratureSeriousPoetry IsSerious Business Book:A Poetry Handbook Source: A Poetry Handbook
“What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.” ImportantSeemsSeriousForgottenSignificantFuture Time Author:Anton Chekhov
“I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.” PeopleThinkingI CanImportantHelpingSidesSeriousBalanceLightersPercussion Author:Evelyn Glennie
“According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.” ImportantMatterChoicesSocialPrinciplesIssuesWisePositionIgnoranceSeriousUltimateImportanceEngagedSaneSoberGambleMadmenOur ChoicesSocial ScienceResignedSoundnessSerious IssuesUnsoundness Author:Leo Strauss
“If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.” IfsShouldTryingMayImportantRunningFoundDifficultAnswersResultsEffortWonderSeriousPhysicsComplexityFascinatingPhysicistAmbiguityPerplexityLayman Author:Edward Condon