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Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we… — Izaak Walton
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. — Josh Billings
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. — J. William Fulbright
When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever… — Malcolm X
A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for… — Friedrich August von Hayek
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante. — Edith Wharton
Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high… — Samuel Johnson
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose. — J. H. Plumb
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is. — Robin G. Collingwood
History is only a value of relation. — Henry Adams
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest… — G. M. Trevelyan
History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the… — Robin G. Collingwood
So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far… — Mark Twain
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and… — George Santayana
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to… — Maxine Hong Kingston
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired… — Theodore Roosevelt
Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a… — Christopher McCandless
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them… — Albert Einstein
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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