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The last I heard of the young man in question, he was trying to eke out a miserable existence as a book agent while he was looking about for a position somewhere with the Government as a janitor or for some other equally humble occupation.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Psychological reflections: an anthology of the writings of C. G. Jung (1961) -
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
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The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.
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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Robert Baden-Powell
British Army officer, writer, author and founder of the Scout Movement (1857 - 1941) -
The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
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The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
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The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone
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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
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The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.
Cosmos (1980) -
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 140 -
The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
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