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"The best things in life are beyond money, their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value."
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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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"It is values that tell you what your pattern and values must be on daily bases."
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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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"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."
Religion
"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"
Mortality
"A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field."
Reality
"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong."
Politics
"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."
Politics
"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything."
Help
"God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good-and is no sillier than any other theology."
Theology
"The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."
Skepticism
"Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times."
Art
"There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service."
Regret
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