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  • Joseph Addison I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Mary Decker Slaney I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
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  • Henry David Thoreau In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • A. W. Tozer Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Camille Paglia The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Roland Barthes The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sir Matthew Hale The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
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  • Booker T. Washington There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Albert Einstein Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason 'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Charles Horton Cooley A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun. Her high selfsufficiency is her charme.
    Life and the student (1927)
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Marcel Proust A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Arnold Bennett A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Sigmund Freud A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Jesse Jackson A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Robert Hall A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
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