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• We shall never understand peace, justice and the living of life until we recognize that all people are human and that humans are the most precious things on earth.

  Wally Hickel

  People, Justice, Earth

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• Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

  Brian Cox

  Understanding, Wonder, Deeper

  Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen (2013). “Wonders of Life”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fate, Issues, Veils

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.128, Cambridge University Press

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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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• If anarcho-communism served to regiment the population in the name of libertarian unity, if it served in any way through collectivist measures to deny the rights of the individual instead of reconciling the rights of the individual with the collective, I would definitely stand completely on the side of the individualist who is trying to rescue above all that most precious thing that makes us human - consciousness and personality.

  Murray Bookchin

  Rights, Names, Personality

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Time, Giving, Littles

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• I don't like precious things; I don't spend thousands of dollars on jewellery for myself. I like going into a junk store and finding something for five dollars. That's my style.

  Erin Wasson

  Style, Junk, Dollars

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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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• Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Truth Is, Propaganda, Should

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• God says "I have given you this gift, and it is a real gift. I want you to love me freely, and I will do anything, anything up to giving up the most precious thing I could say I have, my son, to prove I love you. Please come back."

  Desmond Tutu

  Giving Up, Real, Love You

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

  Abigail Disney

  Pride, Loss, Jars

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.

  Brian Tracy

  Fall, Thinking, Quality

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• The dharma is the most precious thing in the world and we should put it at the center of our hearts and transform our whole lives into dharma practice. Otherwise, at the time of death, we will look back and say, now what was all that about? If we truly want to benefit others and ourselves, we have to do it. No excuses.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Heart, Practice, Looks

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• Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Real, Loss, Skin Tone

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• It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the rights of trade unionists - if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.

  Michael Foot

  Country, Past, Rights

  Michael Foot's speech to the Union of Post Office Workers in Bournemouth, May 15, 1977.

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• If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Moving, Men, Things In Life

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• You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Hard Work, Thinking, Broken

  "The Night Eternal". Book by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, October 25, 2011.

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• The Dharma is a very, very special and precious thing. The more you practice it, the more you will realize this.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, Special, Realizing

  Source: fpmt.org

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• B2uties are the most precious thing to me in this world.

  Yoseob

  World, This World

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• Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Law, Police, Soldier

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.1117, Best Books on

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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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• Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.

  Rob Sheffield

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• The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

  John Green

  Girl, Real, Mistake

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

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• To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?

  Henry James

  Stupid, Thinking, Suffering

  Henry James (2013). “The Essential Henry James Collection”, p.921, eBookIt.com

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• Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds of rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. The supply is too large.

  Jack London

  Loss, Men, Brain

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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