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• Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Ideas, Important, Shapes

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• I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.

  Mario Lemieux

  Past, Years, Play

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• We don't know what's going to happen this summer or who's going to be here next year. We have no control over any of that. So, we're going to play our [22 remaining] games and do the best we can and show up for the New York Knick fans. That's the most important thing.

  Jalen Rose

  Summer, New York, Years

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• If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

  Seth Godin

  Important, World, Information

  "Seth Godin: Mark Cuban Is Completely Wrong About Aggregators" by Steve Rosenbaum, www.businessinsider.com. February 10, 2010.

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• Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.

  Carlo Ancelotti

  Football, Important, World

  "American Dream: Can the U.S. men's soccer team ever win a World Cup?" by Henry Young, Kate Riley, edition.cnn.com. March 24, 2016.

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• The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from.

  Frank Lucas

  Honesty, Integrity, Hard Work

  "Fictional character: Frank Lucas". "American Gangster", 2007.

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• All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Lying, Things In Life, Important

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• If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most important thing) about ourselves, each other and our world. This is because the most important truths about us and them, is that we have been created by the Lord, and utterly depend upon him for our continued existence.

  Alvin Plantinga

  Our World, Important, Firsts

  Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.217, Oxford University Press

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• My career has always been one of the most important things, but after having a baby you find that it drops down on the totem pole.

  Marion Jones

  Baby, Careers, Important

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• I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

  Dean Kamen

  Thinking, Important, Can Do

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• The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.

  Donald Knuth

  Nice, House, Important

  Interview with Jack Woehr, Dr. Dobb's Journal, April 1996.

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• The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, Keys, Important

  "Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands". Book by Cathryn Berger Kaye, Philippe Cousteau, 2010.

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• The most important thing for people to get is we're not even looking at one big investigation, all these agents working together. They were chopped up and divided, but because I worked in the central place... other agents were sending their material to me... I was in this position to see all the dots being connected... These agents, while I was there, because I was the central person, they started connecting the dots.

  Sibel Edmonds

  People, Working Together, Important

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• To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.

  Tony Hsieh

  Things In Life, Entrepreneur, Important

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• When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  David O. McKay

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Life, Country, Drinking

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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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• It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind of the voters in conformity with his own ideas of public welfare and public service. The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

  Edward Bernays

  Country, Government, Ideas

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• Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Peace, War, Men

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• Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.

  David Rockefeller

  Work, Important, Enough

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• He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.

  William Feather

  Success, Important, Tasks

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• The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals.

  Samantha Riley

  Motivational, Sports, Goal

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• It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.

  Nhat Hanh

  Kindness, Community, Understanding

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• The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Expression, Important, Tone

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• The most important things cannot be measured.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Inspirational, Important

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