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• Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Dream, Imagine

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• I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.

  L.A. Meyer

  Pain, Mind, Causes

  L. A. Meyer (2011). “The Mark of the Golden Dragon: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Jewel of the East, Vexation of the West, and Pearl of the South China Sea”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

  John Green

  Girl, Hipster, Adventure

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.137, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Sight, Stronger

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• How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Ideas, Longing, Goodness

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903). “New Letters and Memorials”

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• It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.

  Jonathan Ive

  Life, Faithful, Consumed

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• There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Eye, Hands, Honor

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.246, Macmillan

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• The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

  George MacDonald

  Bible, Jesus, Biblical

  "An expression of character: the letters of George MacDonald".

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• What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Stronger, Done, World

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• You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?

  Ben Feldman

  Men, World, Life Is

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• The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

  Laozi

  Men, Ideas, Desire

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

  Garrison Keillor

  Taken, Rain, Break

  Garrison Keillor (2004). “Love Me”, p.185, Penguin

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• Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

  Kate Mosse

  Love Is, Color, Purpose

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• Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Data, Data Science, Lasts

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• Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Earth, May, Human Life

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• "They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Eye, Different

  "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2006.

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• My private life is the most precious thing to me.

  Leona Lewis

  Life Is, Private Life

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Littles, Mystery, Lifetime

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• Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

  Eudora Welty

  Country, Art, Voice

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.40, Modern Library

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• I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

  Mitch Albom

  Mistake, Heart, People

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• How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie - people claim they want to be free - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

  Jim Morrison

  Lying, Fighting, Men

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• One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Reality, Long

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.404, Princeton University Press

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• Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.

  Rob Sheffield

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• There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

  Ed Greenwood

  Two, Long, Earth

  Ed Greenwood (2011). “Elminster: Making of a Mage”, p.15, Wizards of the Coast

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• It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Suffering, Trying, Our Society

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