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  • Luigi Pirandello Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Anna Held I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Joseph Addison I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
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  • Arthur C. Clarke It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Mark Twain It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Virginia Woolf It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • C. Neil Strait Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Voltaire Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Camille Paglia The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Roland Barthes The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Sir Matthew Hale The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
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