Quotes with worth

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • E. M. Cioran It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Raymond Chandler It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bill Paxton It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Antoine Fuqua It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Ben Carson It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Rollo May Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Margaret Mitchell Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Bill Kristol Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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