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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
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"If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication."
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"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all."
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"Like any value, empathy must be acted upon."
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"Money is not respect. Neither is power. And if people respect you for your money or your power, it isn't you they respect - but the money or the power.When you win people over who hate you for what you are or what you believe, and they still come to you to make friends - or to ask you for counsel or assistance - that is respect - and that respect is power."
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"There is no value to anything in this world, at the same time there is no need to 'devalue' anything."
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"We not only need to have a deep respect for children, but also a deep respect for the child in everyone."
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"A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect."
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"In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil."
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"There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders."
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"My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine."
Life
"Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give."
Philosophy
"Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not."
Life
"A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word."
Psychology
"Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil."
Faith
"I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things."
Travel
"A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die."
Psychology
"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."
Politics
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
Nature
"The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild."
Nature
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