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  • Anna Howard Shaw A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Anzia Yezierska A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Charles Darwin A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Barbra Streisand A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Baer A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
    Arthur Baer
    American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Boris Yeltsin A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Eileen Caddy A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Claude D. Pepper A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ''At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Lao-Tzu A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Adolf Galland According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    German musician and composer
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  • Bill Gross Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Katharine Hepburn Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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