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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific disc...

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Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independenc...

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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

You are so much more than you are willing to accept, child.

What we know matters but who we are matters more.

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being ...

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

If you cherish something enough", she told me, "it doesn't matter how old or worn or useless it's be...

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Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn....

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I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in ...

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What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue?

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contrad...

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth rea...

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My uncle always said that it was the sword in a man's hand that determined his worth, not the one be...

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I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.

Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the ...

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Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.

I have seen flowers come in stony placesAnd kind things done by men with ugly faces,And the gold cup...

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But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a ...

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On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in its...

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José Ortega y GassetThe Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art

Whether is is a good or bad deal depends, for money does not always keep its value, unlike mankind, ...

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Be worthy love, and love will come.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love...

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Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericali...

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No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth ...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.” Oswald Chambers

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

At some point, we have each said through our tears, "I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it." ...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but ...

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Rebecca WestBlack Lamb and Grey Falcon

Art covers not even a corner of life, only a knot or two here and there, far apart and without relat...

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Rebecca WestBlack Lamb and Grey Falcon

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.

Self-worth and net worth are not the same.

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose of Christmas

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and stru...

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Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the thing...

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Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simpl...

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Rincewind stared, and knew that there were far worse things than Evil. All the demons in Hell would ...

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A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth

It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequa...

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It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can n...

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I'm old enough to have lived in a country where, if you were willing to work hard, you could have a ...

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even ...

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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will b...

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...

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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn'...

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