Valuable Quotes
1479 Valuable quotes by 1090 unique authors
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...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.
— Jane Jacobs
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But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.
— Emmanuel Levinas
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Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
— Leo Buscaglia
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to…
— Thomas Huxley
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It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other…
— Terry Pratchett
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Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people…
— Jeanne DuPrau
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Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day - whether it be…
— Jack Canfield
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She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught…
— Douglas Coupland
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Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't…
— Seth Godin
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He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and…
— John Piper
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Whether you approach your dreams on soft feet or in a breathless run, just so long as you acknowledge that your dreams are valuable and…
— Devon Monk
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Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones.
— Cassandra Clare
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You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones
— Cassandra Clare
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Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I…
— Margaret Atwood
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I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already…
— Reif Larsen
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In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.
— Roald Dahl
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I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.
— Russell Brand
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Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him;…
— Jane Austen
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Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people,…
— Henry Ford
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Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never…
— Betty Smith
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High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint,…
— David Sedaris
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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
— George S. Patton
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America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted…
— Malcolm X
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