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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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"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."
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"Poverty is the mother of crime."
Family

"Be content to seem what you really are."
Content

"Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature."
Self

"Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams."
Philosophy

"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."
Work

"Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature's wisdom."
Nature

"To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions."
Quality

"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."
Soul

"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."
Time
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