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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #importance
The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs. ↗
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. ↗
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The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places. ↗
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Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?" "No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure, gorgeous luck." "And observation. I found it." "You did. And I could kiss you for it. You need not shrink and tremble. I am not going to do it. When I kiss you, it will be an important event -- one of those things which stand out among their surroundings like the first time you tasted li-chee. It will not be an unimportant sideshow attached to a detective investigation. ↗
Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear. ↗
In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with. ↗
There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest. ↗
The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, The Heather Blazing. He said that, together with the previous novel, it represented a diptych about the aftermath of Irish independence. I simply hadn't known that – and I loved the grandeur of the word "diptych". I went around quite snooty for a few days, thinking: "I wrote a diptych." [Colm Tóibín, Novelist – Portrait of the Artist, The Guardian, 19 February 2013] ↗
