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“It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!”

Years I Can Important Years Ago Plant Tribes Processed Food

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.”

Years Important Fighting Pleasure Poor Mines Years Ago Breaths Killing Fishes I Realized Passing Passings Fishing

Author:Paul McCartney

“There's always going to be the cooler-clubbers who are going to harvest a lot of fish, but I think the hard-core bass fishermen release just about everything they catch these days. Years ago, I think people were willing to release smaller fish, but now I think they're willing to release them all, and that's the important part.”

People Thinking Years Important Hard Willing Years Ago Fishes Core Release These Days Harvest Bass Fisherman Hard Core

Author:Philip K. Chapman

“My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it.”

Source: Mud & guts: a look at the common soldier of the American revolution

“The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be important if we have the energy and the inclination to challenge it, to go out and engage with its peculiarities, with the things that we do not understand. The real danger is the tendency to retreat into the obvious, the tendency to be frightened by the richness of the world and to clutch what we always have understood.”

Ifs World Years Important Different Real Reality Today Energy Challenges Danger Understood Hundred Years Ago Obvious Tendencies Frightened Retreat Inclination Richness Clutch

Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir

Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir

“Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments.”

Source: Collected Papers: Italy 1921-1938

“In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.”

“We handed the most important belongings of our people - the railroads and the banks - to aliens who 2000 years ago had turned the temple into a house of usury. Back then there was a man who had the bravery to drive out these scoundrels with a whip! If today a national socialist is seen with such a temple-whip, he's thrown into jail.”

People Ifs Men Years Important Today House Years Ago Bravery Aliens Thrown Temples Belonging Jail Socialist Whips Railroads Scoundrels Usury

Author:Julius Streicher

“Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, Ive kinda gotten over, I guess Im saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.”

Years Mean Stills Important Facts Certain Trouble Becoming Elements Years Ago Prom

Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson

“Stories match the way our species thinks. Equally important, stories are something we share - everyone everywhere tells stories and oddly enough, in the same way. It all probably started around some campfire a million years ago.”

Thinking Way Years Important Enough Stories Millions Share Years Ago Species Campfire

Author:John Daly

“The most important, the longest lasting, the strongest emotional, and the most practiced memories are the ones that are embedded the deepest in the brain, and because we have retrieved them so many times previously, they are the most able to be retrieved. We all hear about people who can remember their youth, their phone number, or street address from 70 years ago, but they cannot recall what they had for breakfast. The memory of this morning's breakfast wasn't rehearsed, and wasn't very important, so it fades away quickly.”

“I became a vegetarian 55 years ago, and I think it's one of the more important behavioral changes I ever took. The more I see of the beef industry and so on, I believe that to be true.”

Thinking Years Believe Important I Believe Industry Years Ago Being True Vegetarian Beef Behavioral Change

Author:John Elkington

“Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word. Let's make an example. Take the word gay. Fifty years ago, gay meant exclusively cheerfulness, lighthearted excitement, merry or bright colors. Today this word has a different meaning. You won't call a cheerful person gay because it could be understood as something else.”

“I think life is politics anyway. You can't ignore it, but you can go very wrong in politics. You can say what you thought 50 years ago, but maybe you're wrong today. It's something very special, politics. I think you'd better be a good person in life every day - it's much more important.”

Thinking Years Persons Important Today Life Is Special Years Ago Good Person Being A Good Person

Author:Anna Karina

“I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Years Humans Important Reason Might Happens Three Human Beings Behinds Worry Alive Week Years Ago Procrastination Staying Alive Savanna

Author:James Surowiecki

“Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there's no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.”

“A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.”

Years Littles Two Important Interesting Lessons Fairs Years Ago Weather Awards Important Lessons Fetch Fair Weather Friend

Author:Martin Short

“Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.”

Should Years Important Government Subjects Protect Years Ago Amendments Second Amendment Repealing

Author:George Will

“I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously much different than how another student learns and so I've had to figure out how to get through to people honestly without hurting their feelings - which is no easy task just in the scope of being a human being, much less in the classroom, but which is something that is more important to me now than it was when I was 30 - and to show them a path to improving.”

“Perseverance is my biggest lesson. When I started to get involved in environmental protection some years ago, my people did not take it seriously and they never considered it important. But today, people look at what I do and they truly recognize those efforts, and eventually they join you as "environmental activists" too!”

People Years Looks Important Today Effort Involved Lessons Years Ago Environmental Perseverance Protection Activist Get Involved Environmental Protection

Author:Li Bingbing

“Years ago R.N.A. was kind of a bit player in the cell. Now our picture's completely inverted, and we think R.N.A.'s really the important thing.”

Thinking Years Kind Important Bits Player Years Ago Important Things Cells Inverted

Author:Jack W. Szostak

“Remember, we could solve this in a heartbeat with ranked-choice voting. The Democrats won't pass it. This allows you to rank your choices and eliminates the intimidation and the fear. They won't pass it; I know because I helped file the bill. Sixteen years ago in Massachusetts they could have solved the spoiler problem. They won't do it because they rely on fear. The fact that they rely on fear tells you something very important. They are not on your side. For that reason alone, they do not deserve your vote.”

Knows Years Important Reason Facts Problem Remember Choices Sides Deserve Years Ago Vote Bills Democrat Solve Rely Voting Files Heartbeat Sixteen Your Side Intimidation Massachusetts Spoilers

Author:Jill Stein

“It's very important to understand that 21st century authoritarian rule does not look like 20th century authoritarian rule. You're not going to have people in parade ground formations. You're not going to have a police state. You're not going to people with decorative armbands bullying people on the sidewalks. And the leaders won't stand at microphones for hours ranting at people. All of that is so 80 years ago.”

People Years Looks Doe Important States Hours Leader Century Years Ago Police Bullying 21st Century 20th Century Formation Parades Microphones Sidewalk Police State People Lie

Author:David Frum

“I just think that a much more important part of the problem we face, which was evident 10 years ago and is even more evident now, is that the way we share information among ourselves as American citizens has been radically transformed. The line between news and entertainment has almost dissolved, where ratings now have a big impact on what kinds of stories are covered and not stories.”

“And now I was trying to brush my hair,you know,when I thought about it,and looking at myself in mirrors,wondering if I was pretty.Pretty! A year ago,when my haair got in my eyes I hacked it off with a knife.The only thing important about my clothes was whether they were to stiff to move fast in battle. And Fang had been my best friend and an excellent fighter.”

Ifs Knows Trying Years Important Eye Moving Wonder Hair Battle Clothes Years Ago Mirrors Fighter Excellent Knives Brushes My Best Friend Fangs Hacked

Author:James Patterson

“Halt! How are you? What have you been doing? Where's Abelard? How's Crowley? What's this all about?" "I'm glad to see you rate my horse more important than our Corps Commandant," Halt said, one eyebrow rising in the expression that Will knew so well. Early in their relationship, he had thought it was an expression of displeasure. He had learned years ago that it was, for Halt, the equivalent of a smile.”

Years Wells Said Important Expression Years Ago Horse Rate Glad Rising Eyebrows Halt Displeasure

Author:John Flanagan

“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.”

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply offended, because I until a year before that had also been such a mother who was at home all the time taking care of her child [...] What has lesser status and is more difficult than raising a child? And what is more important?”

Years Children Important Home Care Mother Difficult Wise Years Ago Witty Offended Raising Children Weasley Molly Weasley

Author:J. K. Rowling

“An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development in mathematics since the invention of calculus 300 years ago.”

Years Important Science Theory Development Spring Years Ago Mathematics University Invention Catastrophe Lectures Describing Calculus Announcements Northwestern Northwestern University

Book:The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale

Source: The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale

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