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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 diamond will never tell you how valuable it is; if you don't already know, you are not worthy of it."

"The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you, choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you a new hope and purpose."

"Diamonds are proof that the most valuable things are sometimes formed in the dark."

"If roses were not special weeds would not envy them."
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"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."

"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."

"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."

"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."

"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."

"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."

"When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you,be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife."
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