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"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."
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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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"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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"Gold may shine, but it has no true light."
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"Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects."
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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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"As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness."
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"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
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"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values."
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"You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great."
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"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
Happiness

"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."
Religion

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
Pretty

"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
Habit

"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."
Appearance

"It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather you thought in a certain way because you were made in a certain way. Truth had nothing to do with it."
Nature

"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
Heart

"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."
Freedom

"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."
Beauty

"I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous."
Forgiveness
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