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"Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."
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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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"It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil."
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"If you want to know the value of a month, ask a pregnant woman, if a month matters in her pregnancy."
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"Like any value, empathy must be acted upon."
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"Aligning your values and beliefs to your behaviour, increases your chances of being effective at living a fulfilling life without the stress of guilt-consciousness, internal strife or internal conflict."
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"Do not exchange your soul for money."
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"I won't give 10 dollars for fucking pornography, I will give them for something which will help me to develop..."
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"I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!"
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"In so far as we cherish the tangibles, we must value the intangibles. The intangibles, though as latent as they may seem to be, they are solemnly tangible."
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"A territory is only possessed for a moment in time."
Philosophy
"The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."
Life
"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."
Work
"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off."
Society
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."
Life
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
Living
"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
Society
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Truth
"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
People
"That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it here. Maybe he's been in Africa so long he's forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it's called Monotony."
Humor
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