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The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history. -- Nicola Sturgeon
Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history. -- Fred Saberhagen
The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation. -- Maurice Hinchey
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought. -- Henry Waxman
The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race. -- Francis William Aston
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect. -- Georges Cuvier
Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy, or the importance of taking their voices into the public sphere to create social change. -- Howard Rheingold
George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better. -- Mark McKinnon
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
I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me. -- B. F. Skinner
I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories. -- John Henrik Clarke
Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book. -- Adam Davidson
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. -- Michelle Obama
As a Jew, I recognize the importance of Israel historically, liturgically: its place in our history and in our sacred texts. I fully recognize and appreciate that. I just think that, for me, a sole focus on Israel gets in the way of the pursuit of a relationship with God and a more spiritual existence within Judaism. -- David Gregory
Dates are important in history because what is done on those dates is of importance -- Amit Abraham
History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering." -- Johann Baptist Metz
What history will say about us is of no importance; because we will be gone when the history judges about us. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination. -- Freeman Dyson
There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in. -- Kay Boyle
It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

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