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Worth Quotes
"Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told."
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"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps."
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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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"The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek."
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"Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps."
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"Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses."
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"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well."
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"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly."
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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on."
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"No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn."
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"To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably."
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"If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize."
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"A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it."
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"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."
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"Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each."
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"Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about."
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"I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney."
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"A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets."
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"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."
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"It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing."
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"I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively."
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"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
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"What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find."
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"Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with."
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"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."
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"The value of human beings does not consist in their appearance."
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"Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match."
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"I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing."
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"The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness."
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