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• Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Character, Doors, Example

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Good Life, Elude Us, Water

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• How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.

  Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

  Men, Past, Air

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• Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent, and in doing so, they get all upset

  Frederick Lenz

  Upset, Suffering, Littles

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• We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This outpouring of emotion and effort by our children was so gratifying, and what they achieved absolutely exceeded our wildest expectations.

  Jeff B. Davis

  Children, Caring, Expectations

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• Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Forever, Secret, Doe

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• We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Self, Long, Effort

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• Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

  Oscar Wilde

  Exercise, Class, Needs

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)

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• To give importance to trifling matters.

  John Heywood

  Giving, Matter, Trifling

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• It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.

  William Godwin

  Children, Inspire, Mind

  William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays”, p.78

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• The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

  Madame de Stael

  Mind, Stories, Faces

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• While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.

  Lewis Mumford

  Good Life, Garden, Expression

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• Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its importance would have been diminished.

  David Hockney

  Christian, Art, Messages

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• The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.

  Guy Finley

  Character, Greatness, Two

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• The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

  Ben Shahn

  Artist, Men, Focus

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• No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.

  Roger Fry

  Art, Real, Understanding

  Roger Fry, Christopher Reed (1996). “A Roger Fry Reader”, p.362, University of Chicago Press

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• Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.

  Steve Pavlina

  Fear, Causes, Sides

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• Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance.

  Benny Hinn

  Soul, Body, God Heals

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• Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Past, Spirit, Revelations

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• Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.

  Daniel Pipes

  Country, Law, Wish

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• Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.

  Lili Taylor

  Real, Humble, Self

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• I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Home, Thinking, Giving

  "High Honors For Actress Deavere Smith". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 25, 2013.

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• The adhesion of Coca-Cola is an affirmation of the expansion of the Global Pact and the importance it assumes worldwide, especially on the US market where more and more enterprises have decided to get involved.

  George Kell

  Expansion, Affirmation, Assuming

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• We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children see adults from all walks of life and from throughout the community reading to them, that is another opportunity for children to see the importance of reading.

  Jane Bown

  Children, Believe, Reading

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• The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track.

  Ted Haggard

  Government, Track, Church

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