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• Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.

  Robert Herrick

  Buying, Spirit, God Love

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• I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.

  Louis Begley

  Successful, Thinking, Law

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• Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.

  Edmund Burke

  Independent, Men, Law

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.26

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• A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.

  Jeremy Collier

  Blessing, Greatness, Men

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• It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.

  Francoise Sagan

  Thinking, Common Sense, World

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• You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You simply have to say, "Look. I love you, but I cannot stand by and watch you kill yourself slowly. When you want help I'm here. Until then, goodbye." That may sound cruel, but self-preservation is paramount to helping someone else. If you're a wreck, you're useless to them, anyway. And if they refuse help, despite knowing the likely outcome, they will head down that path anyway.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Goodbye, Love You, Self

  Source: monsterlibrarian.com

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• Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Power, Men, Folly

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.382, Random House

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• With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Order, Water, Effort

  Statement by Alfred de Zayas on World Water Day, March 22, 2013.

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• For me, comfort is paramount.

  Max Irons

  Comfort

  "Face Time | Max Irons". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.

  George Rickey

  Should Have, Design, Movement

  Amerika-Haus Berlin, George Rickey (1979). “George Rickey: Skulpturen, Material, Technik”

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• We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

  George W. Romney

  Selfishness, Needs, Growing

  "Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report", Volume 25, Part 3, p. 2388, 1967.

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• I'm the girl that works at Paramount all day, and Fox all night.

  Mae West

  Girl, Night, Foxes

  "Fictional character: Marlo Manners". "Sextette", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

  Jack Welch

  Opportunity, Organization, Paralyzed

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• History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

  Preet Bharara

  Integrity, Responsibility, Challenges

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• There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.

  Alice Bailey

  Expression, Church, Restoration

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• One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.

  Agnes Denes

  Lonely, Writing, Loner

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere in the world. And it is the gravest problem of land use: Modern humans typically are using places whose nature they have never known and whose history they have forgotten; thus ignorant, they almost necessarily abuse what they use.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Abuse, Ignorant

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• Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.

  Chaka Khan

  Spirituality

  Source: www.today.com

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• Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Teacher, Children, School

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• Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Appreciation, Pride, Vanity

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't think like that. A writer has to think that it's more important to be right than to be popular.

  David Hare

  Thinking, Important, Looks

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• We must never underestimate the power of the prayer that is lifted up by wonderful saints all around the world.
  Prayer is of paramount importance in developing our relationship with our Savior and in building up and supporting others through the work of the Holy Spirit.

  Will Graham

  Prayer, Building Up, Saint

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• The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

  Jeff Zucker

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Transition

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• There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Dark, Men, Years

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• I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

  Aaron Levie

  Inspiration, Technology, Entertainment

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