Quotes with high-value

Quotes 461 till 480 of 660.

  • Ben Elton The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Bethany Mota The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Lionel Trilling The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Anna Quindlen The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Campbell Brown The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Cat Stevens The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Albert Einstein The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Orwell The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Henry Ford The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Eliza Farnham The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • George Eliot The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Billy Higgins The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • Ben Horowitz The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Horace The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Samuel Johnson The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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