"No one is really miserable who has not……" — David Starr Jordan
"No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life."
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18 Quotes by David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan has 18 quotes on this site.
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All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no…
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Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I…
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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for
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Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.
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There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
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The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without…
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"I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I…
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There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his…
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Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit.
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Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is…
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The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.
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When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
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More Cheapen Quotes
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one of 25 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.
— Camille Paglia
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Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and…
— Woody Hayes
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My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice…
— William Zinsser
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Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal…
— Ramsey Clark
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It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and…
— Meir Kahane
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Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of…
— Janet Morris
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There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
— Tony Horwitz
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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me.…
— Woody Hayes
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Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.
— Ben Hogan
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Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily…
— John Wooden
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To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even…
— William Pickens
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But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be,…
— William Shakespeare
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