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• "One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Change, Math, Two

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

  Louise Brown

  Meaningful, People, Stories

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• Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

  Frank Knight

  War, Causes, Conflict

  Frank H. Knight, Ross B. Emmett (1999). “Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 2: Laissez Faire: Pro and Con”, p.297, University of Chicago Press

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• Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. But if we are just focusing on technology and investing in an IT manufacturing plant to come up with higher performance processing [chips], we will not succeed.

  Satoru Iwata

  Technology, Important, Investing

  "Satoru Iwata: Nintendo's Late Legend, in His Own Words" by Matt Kamen, www.wired.co.uk. July 13, 2015.

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• When Caroline Walker fell in love with Julian English she was a little tired of him. That was in the summer of 1926, one of the most unimportant years in the history of the United States, and the year in which Caroline Walker was sure her life had reached a pinnacle of uselessness.

  John O'Hara

  Summer, Tired, Years

  John O'Hara (2013). “Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.79, Penguin

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• There's no such thing as an unimportant day.

  Robin Sharma

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 14, 2011

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• There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Past, Rocks

  "Sir Paul has just written manure for years", www.scotsman.com. July 2, 2002.

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• For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

  Martin Niemoller

  Church, Politician, Truth And Falsehood

  "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 223), 1984.

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• Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, People, Purpose

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now.

  Raymond Charles Barker

  Living Right, Creative, Decision

  Raymond Charles Barker (2011). “The Power of Decision: A Step-By-Step Program to Overcome Indecision and Live Without Failure Forever”, p.50, Penguin

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• Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh, ;-)

  Larry Sanger

  Years, Wikipedia

  "A passel of recent mentions". Citizendium.org blog, May 01, 2008.

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• Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Survival, Getting Old

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• Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

  Tim Ferriss

  Important, Doe, Wells

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• We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Taken, Adversity

  "In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone". Book by Marcel Proust, 1925.

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• There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

  John Ruskin

  Pain, Vulgarity Is, May

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.59, University of Virginia Press

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• It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Lying, Unimportant Things, Evil

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• Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

  Stephen Covey

  Military, Commitment, Important

  "First Things First".

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• I am still happy to be close to the city, [to be] connected to the intellectual source in Ferndorf. In this area, [I feel] connected with nature and unimportant in a postitive way.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Cities, Intellectual, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.

  John McLeod

  Life, Believe, Inspiration

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• The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.

  John Dufresne

  Emotional, Events, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dull, May, Praying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.101

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• To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

  John Herschel

  Nature, Lessons, May

  Sir John Frederick William Herschel, William Whewell, George Henry Lewes, Hermann von Helmholz, James Clerk Maxwell (1996). “The Origins of Modern Philosophy of Science, 1830-1914: Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy”

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• Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

  Charlie Chaplin

  Important, Humour, Irrational

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• And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?

  Pope John Paul II

  Love, Children, Father

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• It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Reality, Decision, Maps

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