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Worth Quotes
"Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps."
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"You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it."
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"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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"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 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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"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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"No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn."
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"Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem."
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"Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses."
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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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"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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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
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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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"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'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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"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly."
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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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"A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it."
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"I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth."
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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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"A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets."
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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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"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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"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well."
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"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."
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"The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness."
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"One good analogy is worth three hours discussion."
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"I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing."
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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on."
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"I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here."
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"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."
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