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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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"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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"Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses."
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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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"No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn."
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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 battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets."
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"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly."
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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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"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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"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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"Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem."
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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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"If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize."
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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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"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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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
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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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"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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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on."
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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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"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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"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
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"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."
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"The value of human beings does not consist in their appearance."
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"I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing."
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"Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping."
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"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."
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