#importance

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beings #billion #course #culture #deny

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#directly proportional #importance #improbability #information #proportional

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#comes #consider #equal #every #every man

I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#berlin #both #burden #confident #decision

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

— Julius Caesar

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I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#approach #clarity #core #course #deal

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#firsthand #former #grandmother #i #importance

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#being #between #flows #future #importance

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#death #gives #importance #lives #meaning