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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah," Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else."
Life
"We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it."
Time
"No one wants advice - only corroboration."
Advice
"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."
People
"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."
Travel
"Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play."
Writing
"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
Literature
"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
Man
"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."
Power
"In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground."
Nature
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