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• Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Balance, Elements

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• Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Matter, Able

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1046, Wordsworth Editions

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• The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Add, Ability

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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• I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Kindness, Small Kindnesses

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.92, Pan Macmillan

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• Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

  Carl Sagan

  Light, Self, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Fear

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• It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Spirit, Impossible, Filled

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.70, Lulu Press, Inc

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• But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

  Robert Delaunay

  Color, Movement, Observation

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• Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe that his nation is also of major importance and superior to other nations and peoples. The general level of world information is high but usually biased, influenced by national prejudices, serving to make us citizens of our nation but not of the world.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Believe, World

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• Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

  Mao Zedong

  Friends, Enemy, Firsts

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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• A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Artist, Land

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• The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Years, Three

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• God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments

  Oswald Chambers

  Creating, Moments, Divine

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• If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.

  C. S. Lewis

  Advice, Christianity, Bits

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals, there is plenty to keep our subconscious mind at work.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Writing, Goal, Mind

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• Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Changes In Society, Humans, Human Beings

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Beyond violence”, Harpercollins College Div

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• The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown or locally produced food into one's nutrition plan, is of great importance

  Tyler Florence

  Nutrition, Plans, Concepts

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• I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important as individual concerns. The elderly, the widowed, newly married couples, the poor, the unemployed, disbanded soldiers and children, who would be required to attend school, must be provided for from state funds. And all this support is not the nature of charity, but of a right.

  Thomas Paine

  Children, Couple, School

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• There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

  Mary Catherwood

  Inspirational, Half, Hours

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.105, tredition

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• Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

  George Washington

  Gun, Fake, Second Amendment

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• Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the ‘global village’ we would propagate prejudice and ignorance.

  Jane Goodall

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Thinking

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• When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they live each moment reverently, consciously, always ready to celebrate the next blessing. When people feel like this, they are not in a hurry, they do not precipitate events with unthinking actions. They know that the inevitable will happen, that what is real always finds a way of revealing itself. When the moment comes, they do not hesitate, they do not miss an opportunity, they do not let slip a single magic moment, because they respect the importance of each second.

  Paulo Coelho

  Falling In Love, Real, Love Life

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• There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

  John Steinbeck

  Kindness, Selfish, Mean

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage.

  Noam Chomsky

  Stars, Self, Intellectual

  Noam Chomsky, Jean Bricmont, Julie Franck (2010). “Chomsky Notebook”, p.72, Columbia University Press

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• By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one implies that such fine actions are only valuable because they are rare, and that malice or indifference are far more common motives in the actions of men.

  Albert Camus

  Powerful, Men, Evil

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