#unimportant

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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.


Janos Arany


#allegiance #consistently #face #frenzied #graver

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.


Ronald Fisher


#detail #doubtful #far #great #lay

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


#difference #how #indeed #life #man

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.


Franz von Papen


#final #germany #individuals #names #stake

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.


Russell Baker


#anything #business #either #evil #humanity

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.


Ambrose Bierce


#about #account #brought #events #false

I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.


Doug Davidson


#bother #deal #does #expect #go

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.


Murray Kempton


#been #confess #evil #far #good

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.


Alexander Woollcott


#day #life #such #thing #unimportant

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.


Sandra Day O'Connor


#best #bottom #every #how #learns