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important world ifs
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you? Aaron Swartz
important-values people levels
And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people. Charlie Gonzalez
important humour irrational
Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant Charlie Chaplin
important persons knows
It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now. Charles de Lint
important attention want
Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important. Charles Stanley
important culture missions
Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values. Brian Chesky
important aging seems
As we get older, things seem less important. Brian Cox
important culture popular-culture
Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.
important say-anything
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. Brian Eno
literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
imitation acquire
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. Edmund Burke
imitation equal predecessors
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth. Baltasar Gracian
imitation repetition observation
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition. Denis Waitley
imitation rudeness strength weak
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength Eric Hoffer
imitation
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true. Marcus Tullius Cicero
imitation envious
I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation. Jeaniene Frost
imitation imitator
Most imitators attempt the inimitable. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
imitation memes term
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation. Matt Ridley
imitation-of-life wells
Well, I'm going up and up and up--and nobody's going to pull me down! Lana Turner