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• There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.

  Robert Cialdini

  Teaching, Differences, Answers

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• Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Teacher, Accomplishment

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• In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

  Quintilian

  Experience

  "De Institutione Oratoria" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 244-45., 1922.

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• Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort and endeavor to reach compromise and long-lasting consensus. These form the cornerstones of the only form of political system that can guarantee freedom.

  Wolfgang Thierse

  Mean, Responsibility, Self

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• Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, People, Quality

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.119, Hamilton Books

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• I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

  Gary Becker

  Understanding, Behaviour, Economics

  Gary Stanley Becker, Ramón Febrero, Pedro Schwartz (1995). “The essence of Becker”, Hoover Inst Pr

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• It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing the plain fact: that gold, that scarce and valuable market-produced metal, has always been, and will continue to be, by far the best money for human society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Champion, Gold, Facts

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• If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  War, Passion, Independence

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• Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Success, Time

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 01, 2015

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• The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Character, Discipline, Goal

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• Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.

  Terry Rossio

  Pay, Lifetime, Ability

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• I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me

  Jay-Z

  Dope, Lesson Learned, Lessons

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• The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the institution of private property that protects and implements the right to disagree - and thus keeps the road open to man's most valuable attribute: the creative mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Creative, Mind

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.370, Penguin

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• No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced because it is uncomfortable ... I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity

  Pope Francis

  People, Justice, World

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• A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Inspiration, Devotion, Grain

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• India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Past, Men

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• Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Blessing, Land, Water

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• Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Independence, India

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• The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private morality can be witnessed in the marketplace as well as the forums of international diplomacy. In the past, a man's honor and reputation were his most valuable assets. Business agreements were made with a handshake. Today one might be well advised to check the "bottom line" and read the "small print."

  King Hussein I

  Spiritual, Business, Past

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• There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Civilization, Religion

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• No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

  George Washington

  President, Delay, Redemption

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.120

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• The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Practice, Office

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.355

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• But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens is so moved, and there is no evidence to the contrary. Nevertheless, this seems prima facie as much, or more, against natural reason as are all or several articles of our faith. Thus, that which I have said by way of diversion (esbatement) in this manner can be valuable to refute and check those who would impugn our faith by argument.

  Nicole Oresme

  Believe, Science, Heaven

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• Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Irreplaceable

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• Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Adversity, Perfection, Connections

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