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Lewis Carroll quote: "It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things..."
It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing, we do for others. Lewis Carroll
For it falls out. That what we have we prize not to the worth. Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find. The virtue that possession would not show us. While it was ours. William Shakespeare
Terry Prachett quote: "It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young..."
It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum. Terry Prachett
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "[T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most..."
[T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort ,is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away. Leo Tolstoy
Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth. Daisaku Ikeda
Albert Camus quote: "Peace is the only battle worth waging."
Peace is the only battle worth waging. Albert Camus
I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then i realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word. Augusten Burroughs
Oscar Wilde quote: "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"
nothing that is worth knowing can be taught Oscar Wilde
May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a saved penny that you put in the star bank...Suffer the cold for an hour. Put a shawl around you. Sai, I am cold because I am saving to buy land. That hour will save you three cents' worth of coal... When you are alone at night, do not light the lamp. Sit in the darkness and dream awhile. Reckon out how much oil you saved and put its value in pennies in the bank. The money will... Betty Smith
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
George Orwell quote: "The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very..."
The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail. George Orwell
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and band, the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind. Thomas Paine
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist. Margaret Atwood
He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both. Douglas Adams

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