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How do I accurately translate a sentence like "being fast is not important but being accurate is."?

I feel like "être rapide n'est pas important mais être précis est" is wrong, especially with the ending on a "est".

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There is indeed an issue with the ending.

Être rapide n'est pas important mais être précis l' est. (no space after the apostrophe1)

or in more idiomatic ways :

Ce n'est pas être rapide qui est important, c'est être précis.

Ce n'est pas la vitesse qui compte, c'est la précision.

1 For some reason, the editor provided by Stack Exchange doesn't seem to allow a bolded apostrophe immediately followed by a non-space character.

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