Whenever I meet someone, I try to imagine her wearing an invisible sign that says: MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT. I respond to this sign immediately, and it works wonders.

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I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.

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It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. — Mignon McLaughlin

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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. – Jackie Robinson

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. — Maya Angelou

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Family is not an important thing. It’s everything. – Michael J. Fox

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If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid. ― Alan Watts

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The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step. ― Brandon Sanderson

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We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns? ― Joseph Stalin

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The two most important days of your life are the day that you’re born and the day that you find out why. - Mark Twain

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