Quotes with worth-while

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  • Sir William Osler To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Joan Didion To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Aeschylus To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Aleister Crowley To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Aristotle To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Arthur Erickson Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Bob Riley Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Treaties are like roses and young girls - they last while they last
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Ben Jonson True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • William C. Bryant Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Bob Marley Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Joseph Conrad Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bill Pullman Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.
    Bill Pullman
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Bum Phillips Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.
    Bum Phillips
    American football coach (1923 - )
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  • George Gilder Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.
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  • Noam Chomsky Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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