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For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice... No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.

Wilfred Thesiger

Writing, Heart, Sacrifice

Wilfred Thesiger (2008). “Arabian Sands”, p.236, Penguin

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Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.

Henry David Thoreau

Forever, Use, Lasts

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good .

Maimonides

Class, Four, Action

Moses Maimonides (1963). “The Wisdom of Moses Maimonides”

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Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.

Han Suyin

Events, Different, Outcomes

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You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.

Neil Gaiman

What Matters, Battle, Outcomes

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The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.

Erich Fromm

Reality, Unimportant Things, Littles

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.114, Open Road Media

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I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.

Doug Davidson

Unimportant Things, Waiting, Negative

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We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.

Sarah McCoy

Lying, Past, Thinking

Sarah McCoy (2012). “The Baker's Daughter: A Novel”, p.53, Broadway Books

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With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.

Howard Thompson

Art, Vegas, Ice Cream

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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Norman Douglas

Issues, Political, Society

Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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Adventure begins with you, personally. It is in the way you look at things. It is the mental stance you take as you face your day. It is finding magic in things. It is talking with people and discovering their inner goodness. It is the thrill of feeling a part of the life around you. The attitude of adventure will open things up for you. The world will become alive with new zest and meaning. You'll become more aware of the beauty everywhere. Nothing will seem unimportant. Everything will be revealed as having pattern and purpose.

Wilferd Peterson

Attitude, Adventure, Zest

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Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

Ralph Ellison

Growing Up, Attitude, Our Society

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It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

Albert Einstein

Military, Desire, Essentials

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Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

Richard Le Gallienne

Men, Differences, Seeming

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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.

Samuel Gompers

Live Life, Inspiration, Opportunity

Samuel Gompers (1957). “Seventy years of life and labor: an autobiography”

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There are a bunch of different ways to look at the fashion industry. Is it shallow to work in fashion? Yes, it can be. But does fashion transform a woman who might feel like nothing and unimportant to glamorous and gorgeous? Yes, it does. Does it employ a huge sector of America? Yes, it does.

Kelly Cutrone

Fashion, America, Doe

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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

Reverend Malcolm Boyd

Heart, What Matters, Might

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Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a blast.

Drew McWeeny

Plot, Family Is Everything, Blast

"Review: ‘Furious 7’ takes over for unforgettable night at the SXSW Film Festival" by Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. March 16, 2015.

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Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work."

Danny Glover

Artist, Trying, Titles

"Danny Glover talks trouble". Interview with Ja'nell Nequeva, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 19, 2009.

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All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.

John Henry Comstock

Life, Success, Failure

John Henry Comstock (1897). “Insect Life: An Introduction to Nature-study and a Guide for Teachers, Students, and Others Interested in Out-of-door Life”

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Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this — and out of nothing — can still count the hairs of my head.

Madeleine L'Engle

Heart, Hair, Feelings

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.14, Open Road Media

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Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.

James Branch Cabell

Life, Tasks, Useless

James Branch Cabell (1930). “The Cream of the Jest: The Lineage of Lichfield, Two Comedies of Evasion”

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But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.

Shulamith Firestone

Order, Psychoanalysis

SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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It is up to each of us to search for and build upon the gifts which God has given. We must remember that each of us is made in the image of God, that there are no unimportant persons. Everyone matters to God and to his fellowmen.

Marvin J. Ashton

Matter, Remember, Made

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That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant.

Ayn Rand

Country, School, Choices

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