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• When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

  Iggy Pop

  Art, Details, Happens

  "Iggy Pop criticises U2's free album ploy" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2014.

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• There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political questions of our century, it should have been this seemingly small and unimportant Jewish problem that had the dubious honor of setting the whole infernal machine in motion.

  Hannah

  Should Have, Political, Honor

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• Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Brother, Giving, Matter

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• The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

  Frank Knight

  Truth, Essentials, Problem

  Frank H. Knight, Ross B. Emmett (1999). “Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 2: Laissez Faire: Pro and Con”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

  Oscar Wilde

  Style, Important, Essentials

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.66, BoD – Books on Demand

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• That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.

  Albert Pike

  Lasts, Life Is, Effects

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

  Perry Brass

  Fashion, Art, Indispensable

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.29, Perry Brass

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• I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.

  Shimon Peres

  Stronger, Weakness, Public Opinion

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter to our bottom line or our spiritual selves. How many of us are tempted, in business, to make a less-than-ethical decision? To appropriate someone else's idea or fudge some numbers? We have to remember that maintaining our ethical and spiritual selves is absolutely linked with achieving the degree of success we're working toward.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Thinking, Ideas

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• Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work."

  Danny Glover

  Artist, Trying, Titles

  "Danny Glover talks trouble". Interview with Ja'nell Nequeva, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 19, 2009.

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• Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

  Tim Ferriss

  Goal, Focus, Doubt

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.

  Colin Powell

  Organization, Persons

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• About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Animal, Wander

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• However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Heart, What Matters, Might

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• Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Men, Differences, Seeming

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• Don`t make unimportant things important

  Dai Vernon

  Unimportant Things, Important

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• What I was is unimportant, what I am now is important.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Important

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• Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.

  Kris Saknussemm

  Interesting, Mind, Communicate

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• We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.

  Sarah McCoy

  Lying, Past, Thinking

  Sarah McCoy (2012). “The Baker's Daughter: A Novel”, p.53, Broadway Books

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• With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.

  Howard Thompson

  Art, Vegas, Ice Cream

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• It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

  Norman Douglas

  Issues, Political, Society

  Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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• Adventure begins with you, personally. It is in the way you look at things. It is the mental stance you take as you face your day. It is finding magic in things. It is talking with people and discovering their inner goodness. It is the thrill of feeling a part of the life around you. The attitude of adventure will open things up for you. The world will become alive with new zest and meaning. You'll become more aware of the beauty everywhere. Nothing will seem unimportant. Everything will be revealed as having pattern and purpose.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Attitude, Adventure, Zest

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• Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

  Ralph Ellison

  Growing Up, Attitude, Our Society

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• Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such examples that there is no such thing in life as unimportant moments devoid of meaning for the future?

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Things In Life, Example, Deeds

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• It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, Desire, Essentials

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