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• To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Self, Waste, Makers

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.140, Feral House

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• Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

  Paul Prudhomme

  Trust, Education, Things In Life

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• The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Fall, Tree

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.108, Psychology Press

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• I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

  Ben Whishaw

  Knack, Wizards, Littles

  "Ben Whishaw: Hold the front page" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2011.

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• My son's the most precious thing to me: He's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

  Ricardo Antonio Chavira

  Selfish, Son, Selfless

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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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Humility, Army

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• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Understanding, Inner Peace

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• My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Time, Money

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.

  George MacDonald

  Thinking, Born, Made

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1848, e-artnow

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• Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Fashion, Beach, Lying

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1312, eBookIt.com

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• Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Time, Past, Missing

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.49, New World Library

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• For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

  Cher

  Tattoo, Skins, Likes

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• I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Gold, Silver

  "First Latin American Pope makes first overseas visit to Brazil". www.abc.net.au. July 23, 2013.

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