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• No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

  Jack Smith

  Wisdom, Wake Up, Waking

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• Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Memorial Day, Believe, Yankees

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• The best part about being married is that feeling of being a team.
  All couples have ups and downs, so having someone you trust is priceless

  Hugh Jackman

  Couple, Team, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jan 28, 2013

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• A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Sky, Long

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.365, Best Books on

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• Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity. 5. The worth of character. 6. The power of kindness. 7. The influence of example. 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom of economy. 10. The virtue of patience. 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy of originating.

  Marshall Field

  Wisdom, Perseverance, Kindness

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• Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and a half an acre on which a single tree was worth more than a hundred dollars. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain.... a bad, black business from beginning to end.

  John Muir

  Uncles, Crazy, Land

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.607, e-artnow

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• Waiting upon the Lord gives us a priceless opportunity to discover that there are many who wait upon us. Our children wait upon us to show patience, love, and understanding toward them. Our parents wait upon us to show gratitude and compassion. Our brothers and sisters wait upon us to be tolerant, merciful, and forgiving. Our spouses wait upon us to love them as the Savior has loved each one of us.

  Robert D. Hales

  Gratitude, Brother, Children

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• Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.

  Theocritus

  Men, Looks, Thee

  Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.127, Delphi Classics

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• If we want to avoid the disaster of one-world-government, if we wish to preserve our priceless national sovereignty and live through all time as free men, then it is imperative that the American people read The Shadows of Power.

  Meldrim Thomson, Jr.

  Men, People, Wish

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• Being champion is just priceless. I'm not trying to sound arrogant or anything but being Olympic champ, you have every country coming together and competing. Doing what they do best, getting awards, money. Coming together and competing in the most competitive way possible with the best from all these different countries on Earth and winning. To me that's priceless.

  Henry Cejudo

  Country, Winning, Awards

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• Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it.

  Michael Ugwu Eneja

  Humble, Humility, Self

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• Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Remains

  "Words and Beauty". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Fear is priceless education.

  Lance Armstrong

  Education

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• You are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn't priceless? No. There's no such thing as a worthless newborn. And the essential value that was born into brand-new-baby you can never be extinguished. This means that even if you think you're being absolutely honest, believing yourself to be anything other than astonishing, incomparable, and infinitely precious makes you a habitual liar.

  Martha Beck

  Baby, Liars, Believe

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• History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Blessed, America, Unity

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• I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

  Khandi Alexander

  Teaching, Arena, Done

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• Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted?

  Henry Van Dyke

  Suffering, Generations, Heritage

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• The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

  Winston Churchill

  Foundation, Inheritance, May

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.444, Da Capo Press

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• I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how far is Up, how long it takes to get Away, and what becomes of Gone. I have discovered the length of the sea serpent, the price of priceless, and the square of the hippopotamus. I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens, how much Is you have to have to make an Are, and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132, if it would interest you.

  James Thurber

  Distance, Ocean, Night

  James Thurber, Marc Simont (1998). “Many Moons”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Environmental, Unhappy

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• I get very excited when I wake up in the morning and I am just full of oxygen. I say that purposefully. I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything. Truly, I get high on oxygen, and once I graduate from that, what really fulfills me is doing what I love. That, to me, is absolutely priceless.

  Debbi Fields

  Morning, Opportunity, Oxygen

  "Debbi Fields Talks The Importance Of Persistence And Staying Present In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Thinking, Liberty, Heritage

  American Communications Ass'n v. Douds (1950)

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• A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and
  Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.

  Martial

  Wine, Thinking, Leaving

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• The Rosary is a priceless treasure inspired by God.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Rosary, Treasure

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• Labour is priceless, not gold.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Gold, Labour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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