Quotes with worth-while

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  • Beth Behrs In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.
    Beth Behrs
    American actress and writer (1985 - )
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  • Anne Frank Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: ''What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Aldo Leopold Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • William James Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Butler Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Richard Neville Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.
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  • Carl Gustav Jung It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Benjamin Graham It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of an abundance or surplus arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.
    Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. II, Government and Surplus Stocks, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Baltasar Gracián It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Tennessee Williams It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Margot Asquith It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Benito Mussolini It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Camille Paglia It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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