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• Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

  Alice Walker

  Curiosity, Mind, Natural

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

  Steven Brust

  Struggle, Mean, Defeat

  Steven Brust (2009). “Five Hundred Years After”, p.525, Macmillan

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• Avice for a human. 87. Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. 88. Which is to say: don't kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars.

  Matt Haig

  Stars, Moving, Dark

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• If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.

  John Green

  Writing, Doe, Muggles

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• I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Hypnosis, Lasting Love

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• It was worthwhile to come here only to see why Europe is rottening, why all this people - good for nothing - are the cause of all the Hitlers and Mussolinis.

  Frida Kahlo

  Europe, People, Causes

  Frida Kahlo (2006). “Frida by Frida: Selection of Letters and Texts”, Editorial Rm Rio Panuko

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• Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.

  Karen Rose

  Eye, Thinking, Worthwhile Things

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• She had worried that she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. she had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Heart, Worthwhile Things, Broken

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Art, People, Rich

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• Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

  Edward de Bono

  Hope, Fun, Creativity

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• I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

  Helen Mirren

  Believe, People, Trying

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• Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.

  Terry Pratchett

  Simple, Guitar, Careers

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.37, Random House

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• People are gonna think that MTV censored me, and they really didn't. I really wanted to try to make a show that didn't rely on offensive, edgy material because I think it was an exercise in trying to write without that. Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.

  Bo Burnham

  Writing, Kids, Exercise

  Source: www.uloop.com

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• No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

  Edward Teller

  Simple, Perspective, Retrospect

  Edward Teller (1981). “The Pursuit of Simplicity”, Pepperdine Press

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• Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.

  Lewis Thomas

  Mistake, Stupidity, Encounters

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• I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Meaningful, Patriotic, Thinking

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.319, Pan Macmillan

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• It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

  Robert Winston

  Real, Animal, Achievement

  "The shame of our silence" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2006.

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• Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

  Nora Roberts

  Complication

  Nora Roberts (2012). “All the Possibilities: The MacGregors”, p.94, Penguin

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• If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Race, History, African American

  Carter G. Woodson, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Mind of the Negro As Reflected in Letters During the Crisis 1800-1860”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Character, Offering

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.

  Paula Yates

  Time, Children, Thinking

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• Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

  Loretta Young

  Penalties, Wanted, Values

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• Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Pride, Wind

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.34, Chartwell

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• And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Struggle, Sky, Personality

  This Side of Paradise ch. 5 (1920)

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• I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Hair, Desert, Waste

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