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It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.

They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

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.

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men.

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.