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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 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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• 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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• The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear.

  Jan Smuts

  Emotional, Hands, Things In Life

  "Holism and Evolution". Book by Jan Smuts, p. 337, 1926.

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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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• There are many diamonds in the world and if you lose your favorite, you can work hard, earn a lot of money and get another one to replace it. But the moments of your life aren't like that. Once they're gone, they'll never return. Each and every one is the most precious thing in existence. You can never meaningfully compare one moment with any other. You can never meaningfully compare your life with anyone else's. No matter how rich someone else may be, no matter how happy they look, no matter how enlightened they seem, they can never be you. Never, ever, ever. Only you can live your life.

  Brad Warner

  Hard Work, Live Your Life, Matter

  Brad Warner (2005). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• The most precious thing in the world: me, because if there was no me, nothing could work out in this world

  Kim Heechul

  Work Out, World, Ifs

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• There's a simple doctrine. Outside of a person's love the most sacred thing they can give is their labor. Labor is a very precious thing you have and any time you can combined labor and love you've really made a match.

  James Carville

  Love You, Simple, Giving

  "Diane Sawyer Reminisces About '92 'Super Bowl' Dem Documentary". "Good Morning America" with Diane Sawyer, newsbusters.org. October 7, 2008.

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• Money is a needful and precious thing

  Louisa May Alcott

  Money, Little Women

  Louisa May Alcott (2010). “Little Women”, p.146, Lulu.com

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• Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the joy of being worn down and tired out with laughter, is a success to be won by no man save in virtue of a rare staying-power. Laughter becomes extreme only if it be consecutive. There must be no pauses for recovery. Touch-and-go humour, however happy, is not enough. The jester must be able to grapple his theme and hang on to it, twisting it this way and that, and making it yield magically all manner of strange and precious things.

  Max Beerbohm

  Laughter, Tired, Recovery

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.184, 1st World Publishing

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• Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

  Mark Twain

  Imagination, Earth, Wonder

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• There was always more in the world than men 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.

  John Ruskin

  Journey, Men, Sight

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.308

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• Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

  George Crabbe

  Men, Numbers, Wife

  George Crabbe (1855). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe. With Life. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.445

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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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• 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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• [Taboo] has been exactly the same as working with the BBC in that creatively they do that precious thing which is to only make a comment when a comment needs to be made.

  Steven Knight

  Needs, Made, Comment

  Source: deadline.com

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• Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Order, Generosity, Brave

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.157

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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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• 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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• 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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• You don't owe the internet your time. Your time is yours, whatever time you give the internet is a gift. The internet does not know this, and it will never learn. Time is the most precious thing you have. More than money, or land, or prestige, or any valuable thing you can think of, a life is measured in time. The sooner you walk away from a useless fight, the more of it you get to have.

  Quinn Norton

  Fighting, Thinking, Land

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• What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures.... ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth--an ordinary life.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Grief, Struggle, Ghetto

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• The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it.

  John Burroughs

  Doors, Hands, May

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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

  Yoseob

  World, This World

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• This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I'm waiting for, that adventure, that movie-score-wor thy experience unfolding gracefully. This is it. Normal, daily life ticking by on our streets and sidewalks, in our houses and apartments, in our beds and at our dinner tables, in our dreams and prayers and fights and secrets - this pedestrian life is the most precious thing any of us will ever experience.

  Shauna Niequist

  Dream, Prayer, Adventure

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