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  • Mahatma Gandhi Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Andrew Carnegie Aim for the highest.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • William Holden All actors are whores. We sell our bodies to the highest bidder.
    William Holden
    American actor (1918 - 1981)
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  • Carl Sagan All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Laurence Sterne All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Billy Graham America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ezra Pound Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
    The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Alan Cohen Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Peace Pilgrim As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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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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  • Vaclav Havel As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Brad Garrett Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.
    Brad Garrett
    American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and professional (1960 - )
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  • Billy Joe Saunders But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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