“ If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. ”
- J. R. R. Tolkien- Copy
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“ The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place. ”
- Howard Thurman- Copy
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“ In short, I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others. ”
- Jonathan Sacks- Copy
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“ There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'. ”
- David Schwimmer- Copy
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“ Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. ”
- Adam Clarke- Copy
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“ With debt servicing ratios at record highs, house prices likely to remain soft and petrol prices stressing some household budgets a sharp resurgence in consumer spending seems unlikely. ”
- Bill Evans- Copy
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“ We are pleased with the progress of our international operations, whilst we remain cautious about prospects in the UK, where we have experienced the slowdown in consumer expenditure. ”
- John Clare- Copy
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“ I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-rate manager running a first-rate business. ”
- Jack E. Reichert- Copy
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“ With first-rate sherry flowing into second-rate whores, and third-rate conversation without one single pause: just like a young couple. ”
- William Plomer- Copy
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“ Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. ”
- Judy Garland- Copy
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“ If you want to double your success rate, you need to double your failure rate. ”
- Thomas J. Watson- Copy
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“ The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. ”
- Stan Barstow- Copy
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“ What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
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“ There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. ”
- B. C. Forbes- Copy
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“ Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ”
- Judy Garland- Copy
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“ The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage. ”
- Paul Ryan- Copy
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“ If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. ”
- Thomas Watson- Copy
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“ The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters — where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
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“ For nine years following 1945 we denied the people of Vietnam the right of independence. For nine years we vigorously supported the French in their abortive effort to recolonize Vietnam. Before the end of the war we were meeting eighty percent of the French war costs… ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Politicians are always saying that they are in support of Iraqi citizens and now they are increasing the price of petrol. We were oppressed for 35 years. We are like a sick patient who is in need of care, and they are increasing prices. ”
- Muhammad Ali- Copy
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