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  • Elbert Hubbard The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Henry Ford The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.

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    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The highest virtue is always against the law.
    Conduct of Life (1876) Worship
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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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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  • John W. Gardner The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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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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  • Billy Tauzin The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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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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  • William Hazlitt The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Samuel Johnson The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jim Rohn The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Jim Rohn The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Oscar Wilde The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barry Lam The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • W. Williams The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.
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  • Leo Tolstoy The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Hahnemann The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
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  • Karl Marx The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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