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"The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it."
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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."
"One of the greatest lies is to believe that we don't have value. One of the greatest mistakes is to act on that belief. And the greatest liberation is found in looking at the cross of Christ and realizing the enormity of the lie."
"Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses."
"Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with."
"I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot."
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"A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together."
"What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth."
"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."
"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams."
"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."
"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription."
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