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• Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

  Nicholas Sparks

  House, Mind, Dawn

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• In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is...that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.

  Marquis de Custine

  Taken, Believe, Administration

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• I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who was much more interested in maternal and pseudo-maternal love, so they were unimportant to me. I didn't even notice the lack of men in the story until I finished it. But once I did notice it, I was kind of delighted. Apparently, my subconscious is totally sexist.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Real, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Variation, Stuff, Form

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.224, Penguin

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• Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Want, Might, Facts

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became "human" enough, the first human soul slipped into it.

  Garth Stein

  Men, Ideas, Soul

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They click, click, click into my brain, like links being snapped together. And then they are done. A small chain of memories that fill in one tiny part of my life. They come out of nowhere, and most are not important.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Memories, Snakes, Brain

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.99, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Water, Tiny

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.

  Rory Vaden

  Home, Procrastination, Entrepreneur

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• [We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Church, Energy

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• The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of us was in the same story. We were all grotesques, and self-riveted, but in separate narratives, and so our interactions seemed weird and richly meaningless, like the characters in a Tennessee Williams play, with their bursting unimportant, but spell-bindingly mad speeches.

  Lorrie Moore

  Character, Self, Play

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• What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it sometimes seemed to him that venial sins--impatience, an unimportant lie, pride, a neglected opportunity--cut you off from grace more completely than the worst sins of all. Then, in his innocence, he had felt no love for anyone; now in his corruption he had learnt.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Pride, Cutting

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

  Carl Sagan

  Issues, Car, World

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• Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.

  Yelena Bonner

  Inspirational, People, Littles

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• One of the greatest threats to your husband's position of priority would be if you were to earnestly pursue a career... If you finally reach a pinnacle of success, you would overshadow him and make him feel unimportant.

  Helen Andelin

  Husband, Careers, Priorities

  Helen Andelin (2013). “Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen our Marriage and Enrich Your Life”, p.99, Bantam

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• Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Worry, Problem, Forget You

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

  Albert Einstein

  Ifs

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.21, Princeton University Press

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• I don't really understand the concept of having a career, or what agents mean when they say they're building one for you. I just do things I think will be interesting and that have integrity. I hate those tacky, pointless, big, fluffy, unimportant movies.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Hate, Integrity, Mean

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• In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust and the consequences of it. Well, I find it terribly boring, predictable and unimportant, because what matters about literature is esthetic achievement.

  Joseph Brodsky

  America, What Matters, Achievement

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.

  John Heartfield

  Art, Color, Special

  John Heartfield (1977). “Photomontages of the Nazi Period”

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• In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

  Mike Markkula

  Jobs, Opportunity, Order

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• School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

  Shannon Tweed

  School, My Own

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• I don't know if God would agree with me, but believing in God is kind of unimportant when compared to believing in yourself. Because if you go with the idea that God gave you a mind and an ability to judge things, then he would want you to believe in yourself and not worry about believing in him. By believing in yourself you will come to the conclusion that will point to something.

  Billy Corgan

  Believe, Ideas, Worry

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• You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

  Norman Mailer

  Conformity, Tick, Non Conformity

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.352, Henry Holt and Company

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• The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  One Day, Doe, Seems

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.50, Random House

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