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Quotes 441 till 460 of 464.

  • Katherine Anne Porter You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Jim Rohn You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Denis Waitley You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Vash Young Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Alfred Marshall But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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  • Novalis Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Catharine Esther Beecher How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
    Catharine Esther Beecher
    American educator
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  • Simone Weil Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Mark Twain Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Thomas Fuller Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Martin Luther King One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Bill Dedman The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Helen Keller The highest result of education is tolerance.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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