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"It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless."
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"You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it."

"There is worth everywhere and in everything we see."

"The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it."

"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."

"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."

"Too many people die early, either tragically or natural death, because they did not treat their lives with any sense of value."

"If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe."

"Water is gold in the desert."
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"It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless."

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."

"One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence."

"However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible."

"The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity."

"Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities."

"Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act."

"The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion."
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