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"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing."
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"Don't some people say, 'You did not value me'? What value did you have at all? Go ask the ocean, 'what is my worth?' You will be swept away with one wave. The owner of many waves has swept away many a people like you! Worth is in those people who have no attachment-abhorrence."

"A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets."

"No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn."

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly."

"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."

"The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness."

"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."
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"These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable."
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