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Values Quotes by Mark Twain
- An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
- If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement…
- Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
- The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.
- Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting,…
- 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…
- I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the…
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- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough