Quotes with worth-while

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  • William Butler Yeats The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Asa Gray The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Agatha Christie The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Andrew Jackson The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Ben Kingsley The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Angela Davis The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Marcel Duchamp The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Bernie Sanders The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Alexander Smith The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Annie Dillard The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Alan Cohen The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • James Thurber The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Aaron Allston The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Henry Home The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
    Henry Home
    British lawyer and writer (1696 - 1782)
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