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  • A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
  • I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
  • Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value?
  • 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.
  • Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
  • Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
  • 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.
  • The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
  • The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.
  • In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • C. S. Lewis Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
    ― C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Paine What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
    ― Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Gloria Steinem Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
    ― Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
    ― Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
    ― Sir Matthew Hale
     
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  • Albert Einstein Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
    ― Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Sigmund Freud A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
    ― Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Jesse Jackson A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
    ― Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Robert Hall A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
    ― Robert Hall
     
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  • Anna Howard Shaw A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
    ― Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Charles Darwin A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
    ― Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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