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• life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Mind, Spirit

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.249, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don't let fear intimidate you.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Destiny, Important

  Twitter post from Mar 24, 2013

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• One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.

  Jim Rohn

  Business, Educational, Taken

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 12, 2015

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• Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution.

  Tony Attwood

  Autism, Important, Aspergers

  Tony Attwood (2006). “The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome”, p.12, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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• The time has come when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy, not permitting the greater portion of our armed forces and our valuable material to be immobilized within the continental United States.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, War, Enemy

  "Times-Herald" (Washington, D.C.), (p. 1), March 3, 1942.

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• It is always more valuable to report the truth.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, War, Reports

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• Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

  Maya Angelou

  Time, Children, War

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

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• No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will find no other exercise more valuable in the cultivation of faculties which will help him to success in agility, strength, determination, coolness, and quick exercise of judgement.

  Hugh Leonard

  Sports, Determination, Wrestling

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• Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Life, Objects, Values

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wisdom, Regret, Life Is

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• What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.

  George Washington

  Summer, Marijuana, Hemp

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• The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Believe, Drug, Psychedelic

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Religious, Believe, College

  William Lyon Phelps (1922). “Human Nature in the Bible”

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• The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

  Mark Twain

  Ideas, World, Curious

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.194, Courier Corporation

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• Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Leadership, Integrity

  Twitter post from Mar 14, 2016

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• I notice my wife when she's on the phone with her friends, man they will share every animate details of their lives with each other. See men once we become friends with another man we may never say another word to him, unless there's valuable information that needs to be exchanged. Things like "Hey Jim, your shirt's on fire."

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

  Willis R. Whitney

  Ignorance, Science, Men

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• There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Design, Serendipity

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• Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

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• The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

  Agatha Christie

  Thinking, Mind, May

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1980). “MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER”

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• The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love You, Caring, Self

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• The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of a member of the house of commons. But the liberty, the only liberty I mean, is a liberty connected with order, and that not only exists with order and virtue, but cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

  Edmund Burke

  Order, Government, Liberty

  "The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, in Three Volumes".

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• A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Government, History

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.82

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• I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.

  Walter Russell

  Interesting, Secret, Experience

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• All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Distance, Moving, Knowledge

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics". Physics textbook by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands, volume I; lecture 1, "Atoms in Motion"; section 1-2, "Matter is made of atoms"; p. 1-2, 1964.

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