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• To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake is a good and courageous thing. To be outspoken when nothing is at stake except the feelings of someone else is a small and contemptible thing.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Issues, Feelings, Bruises

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.140, Sophia Institute Press

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• I've been in a bad accident on I-95, as well as my friend. Having this kind of organization is important so that change can occur. I'll be around whenever they need me.

  Jeremy Miller

  Organization, Needs, Kind

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• Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

  Chris Matthews

  Order, Law, Unity

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• Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without intellectual objectivity they should show me the way to their airport. It is important to have an opinion and not be afraid to express it, knowing there will be criticism.

  Jose Mourinho

  Airports, Objectivity, Knowing

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• everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.

  Carroll Quigley

  Organization, Effort, Society

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important.

  Allan Ray

  Want, Aggression, Coaches

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• One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.

  Erwin Rommel

  Military, Energy, Tasks

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• If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

  Gerhard Richter

  Play, Choices, Arbitrary

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.

  Charles Schumer

  New York, Red Flags, Common Sense

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• I think it's more important to show your work to the public.

  Ai Weiwei

  Thinking, Importance, Shows

  "Zodiac sculptures display jailed Chinese artist's vision" by Alexandra Munroe, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Having your goal to focus on is key, but don't let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after.

  Bill Rodgers

  Keys, Years, Goal

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• Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.

  Bernard Baruch

  Land, Cities, Roots

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• The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Europe, Doe, Alliances

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• Minnesota is very important. You're going to have a competitive race for the Senate, a competitive governor's race, you have an open seat in the 6th (Congressional) District, a state legislature that is closely divided, and a state that was very competitive in 2000 and 2004 and is likely to be again in 2008.

  Ken Mehlman

  Race, Competition, Minnesota

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• I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.

  Jim Leyland

  Team, Errors, Years

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• Financial literacy is not an end in itself, but a step-by-step process. It begins in childhood and continues throughout a person's life all the way to retirement. Instilling the financial-literacy message in children is especially important, because they will carry it for the rest of their lives. The results of the survey are very encouraging, and we want to do our part to make sure all children develop and strengthen their financial-literacy skills.

  George Karl

  Retirement, Children, Skills

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• It doesn't matter if it's in my class or around the world, anywhere, the first thing I say is "First of all guys, I want to give my Heavenly Father credit for all I do and the Lord Jesus Christ to give me the opportunity to go out and reach and save lives." To me, that's the most important thing.

  Billy Blanks

  Jesus, Father, Opportunity

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• I think most important, you need to have the compassion and caring for helping to protect vulnerable people.

  Ellen Sauerbrey

  Caring, Thinking, Compassion

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• Global warming competes with cancer and competes with AIDS for a finite amount of money. Nobody ever won that fight by saying: My issue isn't important.

  Patrick Michaels

  Cancer, Fighting, Issues

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• The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Sea, Differences

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• We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important.

  John W. Snow

  Growth, Economy, Rate

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• We are very excited with the roster of skaters that are coming. It's the first time New Jersey has been awarded an event of this caliber in the skating world. It's definitely important to the area because we hear all the time that there are not enough major sporting events in South Jersey. It's a great opportunity to have such an event.

  Susan Ward

  Opportunity, Events, Skating

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• I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.

  Eugenie Scott

  Facts, Evolution, Theory

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• It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and an important part, in a full discussion of food reform; but the feeling which underlies and animates the whole movement is the instinctive horror of butchery, especially the butchery of the more highly organized animals, so human, so near akin to man.

  Henry Stephens Salt

  Men, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "The Humanities of Diet". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1897.

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• I believe it’s important to stay young at heart, to have faith in what might seem impossible and to have goals beyond your current abilities or temporary means.

  Hayley Williams

  Believe, Mean, Heart

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