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In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose… — Unknown Author
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong. — Jean Rostand
I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be… — Julianne Moore
Read good, big important things. — Peggy Noonan
The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity." — Harry Bridges
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain… — Don DeLillo
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the… — Douglas Hofstadter
Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out. — Ali Vincent
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the… — Leo Tolstoy
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles… — Bertrand Russell
Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively. — Phil McGraw
Though government has an important role to play in meeting the many challenges that remain before us, we are coming to understand that no organization,… — William J. Clinton
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. — Michael Parenti
Foreign aid is important. If it's done right, it spreads America's influence around the world in a positive way. — Marco Rubio
The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens. — Johnnetta B. Cole
I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from "A Time To… — Stevie Wonder
Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly. — Susan Cain
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said… — Lou Reed
if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human… — David Gelernter

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