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I have always emphasized the willingness to discard. -- Daniel Kahneman
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre. -- Steven Chu
Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most. -- Josiah Strong
The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual. -- Antony Beevor
One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing. -- Herbie Hancock
Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested. -- Sharon Salzberg
Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years. -- Toshihiko Fukui
This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning. -- Franz Boas
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. -- John Boehner
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character. -- Edward Thorndike
Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills. -- John Otto
That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for. -- Eric Carle
The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation. -- Barbara Ann Radnofsky
Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance. -- James E. Faust
Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before. -- Eric Kandel
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design. -- Eva Zeisel
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken. -- Sheryl Sandberg
It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace. -- Ernest Istook
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book. -- Iris Chang
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available. -- Victor Francis Hess
Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation. -- Robert Teeter
In ancient China, self-government was highly developed both in community life and in personal life. The custom of mutual protection and assistance was widespread. The organization and regulations of local self-government were clearly defined and strictly applied. Individual self-control was even more strongly emphasized. -- Chiang Kai-shek
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.' -- Tom Robbins
Qatar-based 'Al-Jazeera,' the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having 'emphasized civilian casualties' during the destruction of Falluja. The problem of independent media was later resolved when the channel was kicked out of Iraq in preparation for free elections. -- Noam Chomsky
There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge. -- Bill Simmons
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy. -- Leon Trotsky
Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community. -- Rosa Parks
The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care. -- Benjamin Carson
Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment -- Christopher Hayes
Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene. -- Mark Shields
Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones. -- Adolf Eichmann
It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today? -- Bel Kaufman
Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error. -- Kathryn Kuhlman
I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes. -- Maurice Motamed
Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism. -- Elliott Sober
One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service. -- Harry S. Truman
We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room. -- Minor White
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. -- Friedrich von Bernhardi
It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting. -- E. J. Hughes
In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized. -- William Sargant
For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power--worship. -- Robert E. Webber
I would say sleep can always be emphasized - I didn't do it enough in my 20s, because you don't think you need it. -- Jennifer Aniston
Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week." "And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized. He grinned and touched his can to mine. -- Stephenie Meyer
Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims. -- Emma Goldman
If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God? -- Barbara Tuchman
In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
As has been emphasized vigorously by foreign allies and by responsible leaders of former administrations and incumbent officeholders, there is no current danger to the United States from Baghdad. -- Jimmy Carter
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character -- Edward Thorndike
Superman has been around for so long; he's been around for, what, eight decades now? And he goes through these different eras where different aspects of who he is get emphasized. -- Gene Luen Yang
Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% heritable, which means that 80% of the cause is genetic. -- Richard Bentall
[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality. -- Roger Scruton
It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! -- Patrick Henry
I'm not the one who was elected." Although she disagreed with her husband on "a lot of issues," she emphasized, "I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view. -- Laura Bush
The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become twentieth-century unity. -- Lewis Mumford
My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds. -- Wallace Shawn
As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume. -- Noam Chomsky
One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should. -- Gretchen Rubin
I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano. -- Lisa Loeb
It should be emphasized that the balagtasan also served a higher social and political function. More than mere entertainment, it enhanced the tradition role of the poet as purveyor of truth for the people. -- Virgilio S. Almario

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