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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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• 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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• 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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• A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

  Gary Larson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Long

  "Gary Larson returns with 'A Worm's Story'" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. July 10, 1998.

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• People have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant. As long as we desire material things this is all we receive, and we remain spiritually impoverished.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Blessing, Long

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.128, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Real, Ideas, Myth

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• However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.

  Cressida Cowell

  Beautiful, Dream, Believe

  "How To Train Your Dragon: How To Speak Dragonese". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2017.

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• The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Sleep, Sublime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.29, Bantam Classics

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• Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Games, Joy

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The overall effect of the rise of the industrial system is greatly to reduce the union as a social force. But it will not disappear or become entirely unimportant.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Unions, Disappear, Social

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.338, Princeton University Press

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• The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. And, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects upon the popular mind. Peter the Hermit held no office, yet what a work he wrought!

  Albert Pike

  Heart, Blow, People

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically, except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of my jests is to say that we work empirically -- we use bull's eye empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first!

  Edwin Land

  Eye, Trying, Firsts

  "The Journal of Imaging Science and Technology", (Vol. 37, No. 3, p. 537), 1992.

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• The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Essentials, Form, Mediums

  Gwendolen Webster, Kurt Schwitters (1997). “Kurt Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study”

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• The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and unimportant factor in human affairs.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• We're living in a time where movies are very unimportant. They're not leaving a footprint on your heart. We're going to the movies now and we're going, "Oh, man, that was cool! That was thrilling! That was a ride!" But, we're not walking away anymore thinking, "I just experienced something that could change the way I live."

  Daniel Gillies

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  "Daniel Gillies Talks THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, The Spin-Off THE ORIGINALS, His Directorial Debut BROKEN KINGDOM, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

  Tim Ferriss

  Important, Doe, Wells

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• The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Past, Hands

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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

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• The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Understanding, Important

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work... you can only see what you are ready to see - what mirrors your mind at that particular time.

  George A Tice

  Photography, Mirrors, Mind

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• We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Long, Anarchy, Heresy

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.32, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Teacher, Ideas, Important

  "Curative Education" by Rudolf Steiner, lect. 2, June 26, 1924.

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• Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

  Paul Strand

  Photography, Thinking, Self

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• After September 11 there was feeling obligated to respond, and allow other people to set the terms of the conversation. There was this ritualistic condemnation of terrorism. I'm not saying that that's unimportant, but it became the case that the Muslim people in the United States or in other parts of the world were inclusively taking on responsibility for things that they had nothing to do with. Of course, it's very important that a community define its moral boundaries. A community also must acknowledge what it can and cannot control.

  Haroon Moghul

  Responsibility, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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