Quotes with worth

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  • Tom Stoppard If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Richard P. Feynman If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Herbert N. Casson If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.
    Herbert N. Casson
    Canadian journalist and author (1869 - 1951)
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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
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  • Cass Sunstein If there's a regulation that's saving 10,000 lives and costing one job, it's worth it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron If Twitter is worth seven billion next month, I'm happy for them to be worth six billion and spend a billion making it safer for people, for example.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Barry Mann If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • George Orwell If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Serge Daney If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.
    Serge Daney
    French movie critic
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  • Alice Walker If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bob Corker If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Mark Twain In Boston they ask, ''How much does he know?'' In New York, ''How much is he worth?'' In Philadelphia, ''Who were his parents?''
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Herbert In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Barack Obama In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • George Macdonald In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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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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