I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme… — Charles Franklin Thwing Copy Share Image
American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
“It was all about money. Dirty, bloody money. It can come and go so easily. They don't see that life is what's… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
“We have every piece of data on 200 million people,” he said, ticking off his fingers. “We have their bank accounts. We… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
I discovered [Joan of Arc] toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don't remember where I… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I wish that I knew the importance of having a regular mammogram, as early detection offers better treatment options and a better… — Thelma Jones Copy Share Image
Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women... As she raised my awareness… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If art could be absolutely verified as to importance in, say, the way gold can be judged for purity and weight, then… — Harold Town Copy Share Image
“What is the one thing that gets you up every morning? The one thing that keeps you going every day, every month,… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
When you're making art, there's a lot of self-importance attached to that, but at the end of the day, you can always… — Glen Berger Copy Share Image
The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
“In the Negro world, as in the white world, Negroes who have money band together and try to ignore the existence of… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
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