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“There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.”

Doubt Influence Importance Institutions No Doubt Prize Worthwhile

Author:Keith O'Brien

“Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.”

Made Artist Influence Depends Areas Importance Innovation

Book:Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

Source: Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

“To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.”

Giving Christian Religious Results Influence Teaching Dangerous Importance Tendencies Curious Paganism

Author:Nicholas Murray Butler

“The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.”

Mind Firsts Night Stars Grows Nature Education Sun Influence Wind Importance Blow Grass Sunset

Book:Nature and Other Essays

Source: Nature and Other Essays

“Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.”

May Certain Results Existence Taken Influence Produce Higher Accounts Importance Finite Magnitude

Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.”

Men Seems Influence Advice Importance Good Advice

Book:The works of the author of the Night-thoughts. Revised and corrected by himself

Source: The works of the author of the Night-thoughts. Revised and corrected by himself

“The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.”

Doe Hands Lying Leader Happened Influence Information Theory Importance Reasoning Peculiar Revolt Second Hand

Book:Aims of Education

Source: Aims of Education

“The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it is a creation, but above all in the fact that it is one of the most effective means of shaping our ideas and influencing our behavior.”

Mean Ideas Facts Reality Eye Lying Influence Creation Behavior Photography Importance Permit Lenses Distortion

Author:Gisele Freund

“The failure of protection, the importance of recognizing the ways in which we influence (and infect) each other - the fact that being an "individual" can't protect you - these are issues I've been thinking about for a while.”

Thinking Way Facts Individual Issues Influence Protect Importance Protection Recognizing Protect You

Author:Laura Mullen