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  • Adam Sedgwick As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
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  • Mark Twain As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Henry David Thoreau As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Caroline Lawrence At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Bill Haslam At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Bill Fagerbakke Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
    Bill Fagerbakke
    American actor (1957 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill James Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
    Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 48, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Doug Horton Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Sir William Temple Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Homer But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • V.S. Naipaul But everything of value about me is in my books.
    Literary Occasions (2012) 188
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Ronald Reagan But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Saskya Pandita By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
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  • Brit Morin By the time I was a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to move to Silicon Valley and learn more about computers and the Internet. I just fell in love with technology and the potential of everything the Internet had to offer.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Anne Campbell Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Karl Marx Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Arne Jacobsen Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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