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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
bill gates— In the Independent on Sunday, 12 October 1997.
It is important to teach young people at school that violence is a fruitless approach to solving problems.
Dalai Lama
Family is the most important thing in the world.
Princess of Wales Diana— OK Magazine's special Princess Diana 50th birthday tribute issue, p. 67.
One person I do feel a little sorry for, though, is the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important clergyman in Britain and he's only got two lousy palaces to live in. What sort of life is that for a man of God? I bet if Jesus came back, even he'd be embarrassed for him; I bet he wouldn't be able to look him in the eye.
pat condell— YouTube video (April 17, 2007; from YouTube)
Male circumcision provides a degree of protection against acquiring HIV infection, equivalent to what a vaccine of high efficacy would have achieved. Male circumcision may provide an important way of reducing the spread of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa.
Bertran Auvert— Dr Auvert, et al, PLoS Medicine, November 2005
Perhaps the most important single characteristic of modern organizational cybernetics is this: That in addition to concern with the deleterious impacts of rigidly-imposed notions of what constitutes the application of good "principles of organization and management" the organization is viewed as a subsystem of a larger system(s), and as comprised itself of functionally interdependent subsystems.
— Richard F. Ericson (1969) Organizational cybernetics and human values p. 14-15
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Martin Luther King Jr.— Speech at Cornell College, Mt Vernon, Iowa. Reported in the Wall Street Journal, 13 November 1962
Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood.
David Ricardo— Original Preface, p. 1
In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.
Kina Grannis— Found in Dating! 10 Helpful Tips for a Successful Relationship by Laura Buddenburg
Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
Al Jarreau— American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found.
— John Forbes Nash (portrayed by Russell Crowe, in A Beautiful Mind (2001).
And what I've learned isnot to believe in magical leaders any more; that character and compassion are more important than ideology; and that even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to think that it's foolish and unimportant to try.
Peter C Newman— 1973 Home Country: People, Places, and Power Politics.
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama— Kindness, Clarity, and Insight (1984) Tenzin Gyatso
Awards are not as important to me as when I meet a 10-year-old kid who says, "I love Captain Jack Sparrow."
johnny depp— Quoted in Bernard Weintraub, "Playboy Interview: Johnny Depp," Playboy (May 2004)
You need your family in this business. It's one of the most important things to keep you grounded. You come home and your mom's like, "Clean the kitty's litter box." It's not like it's all about me.
kirsten dunst— Interview in The Guardian (14 October 2000)
The central assertion of this view, I repeat, is that each new stage of words literally created new perceptions and attentions, and such new perceptions and attentions resulted in important cultural changes which are reflected in the archaeological record.
julian jaynes— Book I, Chapter 6, p. 132 (Italics as per text...)
It makes me itchy, this wry fatalism, but it doesn't make me itch nearly as much as the heroes of so many other modern novels for whom stalking the savage libido is more fun than kinship or community; who will leave town either to find their callow selves, as if they'd lost anything important, or, more transgressively, to kill a bear, a bull, a whale, a unicorn, a hippogriff, a signifier or, preferably, their fathers.
john leonard— "The Accidental Matriarch", The New York Times (20 May 2001)
One of the things — the important aspects of this race — is role modeling what good families should look like. Our view was that, if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House.
michelle obama— Speech Speech at a Women for Obama rally, Chicago (August 2007). YouTube video
Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ...In developed capitalist economies, private consumption spending accounts for half or more of GDP.
jim stanford— Economics For Everyone (2008), Part 2, Chapter 9, Reproduction (for Economists), p. 114.
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato, and of Rome.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act I, scene 1.
Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as “political correctness”, constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy. It is important to hear the views of all persons,including the “silent majority”, and to give heed to the weaker voices.
alfred de zayas— Interim report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred Maurice de Zayas [4]
The three most important things to have are faith, hope and love. But the greatest of them is love.
— Paul of Tarsus, in 1 Corinthians 13:13 (New. International Readers Version).
The work . . . is steadily growing and spreading – especially in that most important department, native help. . . . The future hope of China doubtless lies in them. I look on all us foreign missionaries as platform work round a rising building; the sooner it can be dispensed with the better; or rather, the sooner it can be transferred to other places, to serve the same temporary purpose, the better for the work sufficiently forward to dispense with it, and the better for the places yet to be evangelized.
james hudson taylor— (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 373.)
It is to be emphasized that no matter how many [amplitude] arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate a single final arrow for the event . Mistakes are often made by physics students at first because they do not keep this important point in mind. They work for so long analyzing events involving a single photon that they begin to think that the arrow is somehow associated with the photon [rather than with the event].
richard feynman— p. 75-76 (QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985))
The World Heritage properties situated in the northern parts of Mali have been subjected to destructive attacks since they were occupied by armed rebel groups in April this year [2012]. In Timbuktu, nine mausoleums have been desecrated , including two at the Mosque of Djingareyber, the most important mosque in the town.
— UNESCO, in Creation of a Special Fund for the Safeguarding of Mali’s World Heritage sites (25 July 2012)
