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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. -- Norman Cousins
Success in war and preservation of a country's social framework as a purpose at least equal in importance to welfare of individuals. -- Simon Kuznets
Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance. -- Rene Cassin
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
There is nothing we could do of greater importance than to have fortified in our individual lives an unshakable conviction that Jesus is the Christ, the living Son of the living God. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. -- Henry A. Wallace
I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual. -- Adhir Kalyan
Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up. -- Kevin Johnson
As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life. -- Naveen Jain
Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates. -- Christopher Alexander
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement. -- Angela Davis
Growing up, I had a sense of the importance of commerce and trade to everyday life. Our family lived in several countries, and I was fascinated by the free exchange of goods and services between individuals and companies - the way both parties could benefit. -- Muhtar Kent
Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion. -- Mohsin Hamid
When judging a horoscope, it is of prime importance that we take into consideration the social and racial standing of the individual, for configurations which are of great significance in the horoscope of an educated Caucasian may mean little or nothing in the figure of a Chinese Coolie and vice versa. -- Max Heindel
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. -- Kelly Miller
Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort. -- Robert D. Putnam
To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce. -- Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species. -- Aldous Huxley
The transcendent importance of love and goodwill in all human relations is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and society. -- George David Birkhoff
The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are. -- Emilio Pucci

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