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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics))
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Funny how a thing like that can be so damned important, but you don't know it's important until an instant later in the big scheme of time. Then you go back and try to retrieve it. You tell yourself it's in there somewhere. But it's really in that no-man's-land of the moment before you woke up and started paying attention to your own life.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (Chasing Windmills)
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but the importation of knowledge did not mean the exportation of wisdom.
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Lynn Messina (A Scandalous Deception (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #2))
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The most important thing I can add from my own observations is this: knowing it started from unremarkable circumstances should be a comfort to us all. Because it proves that you don’t need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you’ve got.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (Pay It Forward)
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The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,
but more importantly, trodden upon.
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Martin Hopkins (Cracks in the Pavement)
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It depends how important it is to them to see things differently.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (When I Found You)
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If you can't swallow your pride to recognize the importance of other people, you are boned.
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Sam Hyde
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You think passion is enough. That it’s all you really need. You think if something’s just really, really important to you, it’ll magically appear. Well, passion is all well and good. You won’t get nowhere without it. But it’s not the whole enchilada. You still gotta go step-by-step like everybody else.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (When I Found You)
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To be treated like just another person in his life when he was in fact the most important person in hers was simply unbearable. “No, I can’t dance with you,” Bea said frankly. “It’s out of the question.” Despite his claim to wounded vanity, Kesgrave seemed only amused by her rejection and calmly asked her why it could not be considered.
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Lynn Messina (An Infamous Betrayal (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #3))
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Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all. It’s like saying it’s your fault if I shoot you, because the gun is aiming at you. It completely disregards who’s doing the aiming. But it’s a popular point of view. Probably because it’s so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. You don’t have to understand it now … Just file it away with everything else I’ve said that sounds like a foreign language to you. Maybe you’ll learn a new language someday. Some people do. It depends how important it is to them to see things differently.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (When I Found You)
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As your future wife, I find that very reassuring, but I meant the writing style. My mother is succinct and makes her points cleanly,” she explained. “You will find none of the loquacious self-importance that you value so highly in a persuasive argument. I say that only as a warning, not a criticism, you understand. I personally love loquacious self-importance.
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Lynn Messina (A Nefarious Engagement (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #4))
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Several years ago I was lecturing in British Columbia. Dr [Simon] Wessely was speaking and he gave a thoroughly enjoyable lecture on M.E. and CFS. He had the hundreds of staff physicians laughing themselves silly over the invented griefs of the M.E. and CFS patients who according to Dr Wessely had no physical illness what so ever but a lot of misguided imagination. I was appalled at his sheer effectiveness, the amazing control he had over the minds of the staid physicians….His message was very clear and very simple. If I can paraphrase him: “M.E. and CFS are non-existent illnesses with no pathology what-so-ever. There is no reason why they all cannot return to work tomorrow.
The next morning I left by car with my crew and arrived in Kelowna British Columbia that afternoon. We were staying at a patient’s house who had severe M.E. with dysautanomia and was for all purposes bed ridden or house bound most of the day. That morning she had received a phone call from her insurance company in Toronto. (Toronto is approximately 2742 miles from Vancouver). The insurance call was as follows and again I paraphrase:
“Physicians at a University of British Columbia University have demonstrated that there is no pathological or physiological basis for M.E. or CFS. Your disability benefits have been stopped as of this month. You will have to pay back the funds we have sent you previously. We will contact you shortly with the exact amount you owe us”.
That night I spoke to several patients or their spouses came up to me and told me they had received the same message. They were in understandable fear.
What is important about this story is that at that meeting it was only Dr Wessely who was speaking out against M.E. and CFS and how … were the insurance companies in Toronto and elsewhere able to obtain this information and get back to the patients within a 24 hour period if Simon Wessely was not working for the insurance industry… I understand that it was also the insurance industry who paid for Dr Wessely’s trip to Vancouver.
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Byron Hyde
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We can find clear proof of this fact in the history of science itself. For example, the French mathematician Poincaré and the chemist Kekulé owed important scientific discoveries (as they themselves admit) to sudden pictorial “revelations” from the unconscious. The so-called “mystical” experience of the French philosopher Descartes involved a similar sudden revelation in which he saw in a flash the “order of all sciences.” The British author Robert Louis Stevenson had spent years looking for a story that would fit his “strong sense of man’s double being,” when the plot of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was suddenly revealed to him in a dream.
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C.G. Jung (Man and His Symbols)
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looking back, every moment feels equally important. Now the most tedious and uneventful day I ever spent feels like a gift. Now I’m holding those moments like a heaping double handful of pearls, and at the same time I’m admiring their beauty, I have to open my hands and let them pour through.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (Walter's Purple Heart)
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Uptown Realty Austin
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People can do all manner of things if it’s important enough. If a mother can lift a car off her son, maybe she can die at just the right time to save him.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (When You Were Older)
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What I think I should do is more important to me than what you think
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (Stay)
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What I think I should do is more important to me than what you think I should do. But that doesn’t mean your opinion has no value to me at all.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (Stay)
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People remember what they want to remember and forget what they want to forget. If you told him something was important to you and he forgot to do it, he blew you off.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (Take Me with You)
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the Hyde School’s message to students is: - that they have an important purpose on this earth and the unique potential to fulfill it. - that their true worth is measured not by their social status, intellect, or talents, but by the strength of their character. - that we admire their attitude and effort, and care less about their actual achievements, because these will come with time if they develop character traits like those emblazoned on the Hyde School shield: Courage, Integrity, Concern, Curiosity, and Leadership.
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Lisa D. Delpit (Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated Edition)
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It isn’t nice to hurt other people, and if you absolutely must hurt someone, it’s important that you never do it on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day, or maybe even a day or two before or after that.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (When I Found You)
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Home Economics & Civics
What ever happened to the two courses that were cornerstone programs of public education? For one, convenience foods made learning how to cook seem irrelevant. Home Economics was also gender driven and seemed to stratify women, even though most well paid chefs are men. Also, being considered a dead-end high school program, in a world that promotes continuing education, it has waned in popularity. With both partners in a marriage working, out of necessity or choice, career-minded couples would rather go to a restaurant or simply micro-burn a frozen pre-prepared food packet. Almost anybody that enjoys the preparation of food can make a career of it by going to a specialty school such as the Culinary Institute of America along the Hudson River in Hyde Park, New York. Also, many colleges now have programs that are directed to those that are interested in cooking as a career. However, what about those that are looking to other career paths but still have a need to effectively run a household? Who among us is still concerned with this mundane but necessary avocation that so many of us are involved with? Public Schools should be aware that the basic requirements to being successful in life include how to balance and budget a checking and a savings account. We should all be able to prepare a wholesome, nutritious and delicious meal, make a bed and clean up behind one’s self, not to mention taking care of children that may become a part of the family structure. Now, note that this has absolutely nothing to do with politics and is something that members of all parties can use.
Civics is different and is deeply involved in politics and how our government works. However, it doesn’t pick sides…. What it does do is teach young people the basics of our democracy. Teaching how our Country developed out of the fires of a revolution, fought out of necessity because of the imposing tyranny of the British Crown is central. How our “Founding Fathers” formed this union with checks and balances, allowing us to live free, is imperative. Unfortunately not enough young people are sufficiently aware of the sacrifices made, so that we can all live free. During the 1930’s, most people understood and believed it was important that we live in and preserve our democracy. People then understood what Patrick Henry meant when in 1776 he proclaimed “Give me liberty or give me death.” During the 1940’s, we fought a great war against Fascist dictatorships. A total of sixty million people were killed during that war, which amounted to 3% of everyone on the planet. If someone tells us that there is not enough money in the budget, or that Civic courses are not necessary or important, they are effectively undermining our Democracy. Having been born during the great Depression of the 1930’s, and having lived and lost family during World War II, I understand the importance of having Civics taught in our schools. Our country and our way of life are all too valuable to be squandered because of ignorance.
Over 90 million eligible voters didn’t vote in the 2016 presidential election. This means that 40% of our fellow citizens failed to exercise their right to vote! Perhaps they didn’t understand their duty or how vital their vote is. Perhaps it’s time to reinvigorate what it means to be a patriotic citizen. It’s definitely time to reinstitute some of the basic courses that teach our children how our American way of life works. Or do we have to relive history again?
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Hank Bracker
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what benefit does retaining the clause, He descended into hell, bring to us? In a word, this clause is an essential part of the doctrine of the Christian church as well as the experience of its members. John Calvin spoke of its essential nature for doctrine when he said what this clause asserts in the Apostles’ Creed is “a matter of no small moment in bringing about redemption.” He continued to say that, “a place must be given to it, as it contains the useful and not-to-be-despised mystery of a most important matter.” To those with scruples about this clause, Calvin said, “It will soon be made plain how important it is to the sum of our redemption: if it is left out, much of the benefit of Christ’s death will be lost.”1
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Daniel R. Hyde (In Defense of the Descent: A Response to Contemporary Critics)
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soon I stopped talking. It felt good to stop. Even though I know I said it was very important, what I was saying. But after a minute it didn’t seem so important anymore, and that was a relief.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (The Language of Hoofbeats)
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I was wondering about the origin of the word hat trick. Where does it come from? Cricket doesn’t have much to do with hats, does it?’ ‘I think it was at Sheffield’s Hyde Park ground in 1858. An All-England cricket team was engaged in a cricket match against the Hallam XI. During the match, H.H. Stephenson of the All-England XI took three wickets in three balls. As was customary at the time for rewarding outstanding sporting feats, a collection was made. The proceeds were used to buy a white hat, which was duly presented to the bowler.’ ‘And was Stephenson grateful?’ ‘History is, I fear, silent on this important subject, Geordie. But Mr Ali’s hat trick certainly made our own little contribution to cricketing statistics.’ ‘Although
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James Runcie (Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night: Grantchester Mysteries 2)
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It seems important,” she says. “It just doesn’t seem wrong.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (Walter's Purple Heart)
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The most important thing I can add from my own observations is this: Knowing it started from unremarkable circumstances should be a comfort to us all. Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingridients. You can start with the world you've got.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (Pay It Forward)
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It’s not too late for us to reverse our course,” her ladyship said with sudden vehemence. “Forget all about this unpleasantness and focus on something truly important like my missing gold locket. The story might have a few incongruencies now, but I promise to smooth them out and have the appropriate item of jewelry hopelessly lost by the end of the day.
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Lynn Messina (A Nefarious Engagement (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #4))
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Bea recognized his comment as yet another slight against poor Mrs. Radcliffe, and insulting as it was, she was grateful to realize that his respect for her extended only so far. In every way that mattered, he still considered her beneath his consideration. It was an important lesson for her to remember.
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Lynn Messina (A Brazen Curiosity (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #1))
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I think very often in life we do something important for someone else for no better reason than that they need us to. And really, when you think about it . . . what more reason is needed?
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (Just After Midnight)
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was important to feel at home while at home.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (Have You Seen Luis Velez?)
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It’s really important,” I say, “when you’re thinking bad thoughts about yourself, to remember that they might turn out to be wrong.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (Stay)
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tea. “I think very often in life we do something important for someone else for no better reason than that they need us to. And really, when you think about it . . . what more reason is needed?
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Catherine Ryan Hyde (Just After Midnight)
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Soon the Pirate Captain was strolling through Hyde Park telling his crew all about life on the inside.
‘You have to survive on your wits, really. Especially a good-looking fellow like myself. There was a real risk I could have been traded around by my cell mate for a packet of cigarettes. And it’s important not to drop the soap. Though having said that, I’ll miss the camaraderie. Taking new prisoners under your wing, showing them the ropes, that kind of thing.’
‘We’re very glad you’re free again,’ said the pirate with a scarf.
‘Yes. Freedom. Difficult to adjust to that.’ The Captain furrowed his brow and did his best thousand-yard stare. ‘I hope I haven’t become institutionalised.’
‘I think it takes longer than half an hour to become institutionalised, Pirate Captain.
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Gideon Defoe (The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists)