#importance

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#badly #critical #environment #especially #had

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. ↗

— William Godwin

#eminent #importance #learn #one thing #probable

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. ↗

— Kelly Millar

#exaggerated #fault #individual #racial #self-importance

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#cannot #emphasize #enough #good #good teacher

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. ↗

— Graham Greene

#away #becomes #bribe #changes #effect

The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#come #difference #evidence #facts #importance

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#also #becoming #demons #feelings #found

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#best #ends #how #importance #individuals

Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#air #air force #army #coast #coast guard

My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#born #grandmother #great #had #i