This is the radio personality Harry Harrison (born 20 September 1930), quoted in Think Vol. 21, No. 1 (January 1955), and The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) edited by John Cook, Steve Deger, and Leslie Ann Gibson
Misattributed
Estelle Getty, ‘Golden Girls’ Matriarch, Dies at 84, New York Times, July 23, 2008
“I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.”
Letter to Blanche Jennings (15 April 1908), Letters of D.H. Lawrence (1979), edited by James T. Boulton
“We mean by "politics" the people's business — the most important business there is.”
Speech in Chicago, Illinois (19 November 1955)
Source: Good To Great And The Social Sectors, 2005, p. 1
Bk I, Ch. I, Introduction
Principles of Economics, (1890)
“Life's most important questions are, for the most part, nothing but probability problems.”
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"Les questions les plus importantes de la vie ne sont en effet, pour la plupart, que des problèmes de probabilité."
“Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.”
Source: The Museum of Innocence
“The important business of man is life, and the important business of life is death.”
“Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are part of that.”
Micah Sparks, Chapter 9, p. 132
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
“The most important questions of life… are indeed for the most part only problems of probability.”
Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1902)
Context: The most important questions of life... are indeed for the most part only problems of probability. Strictly speaking it may even be said that nearly all our knowledge is problematical; and in the small number of things which we are able to know with certainty, even in the mathematical sciences themselves, the principal means for ascertaining truth—induction and analogy—are based on probabilities.<!--p.1
