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• The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

  Derren Brown

  Kindness, Quality, Adults

  "Confessions of a Conjuror". Book by Derren Brown, October 2010.

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• A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

  Hippocrates

  Wise, Men, Medicine

  Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Women, Thinking, Combat

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• The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Women, Window Panes, Broken

  Quoted in George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England (1936)

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• There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn’t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires.

  Graham Swift

  Humble, Land, Progress

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• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  Barney Frank

  Community, Principles, Levels

  "The Sayings of Chairman Barney" by Richard Reeves, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 2, 2011.

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• Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.

  Alice Hamilton

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.97, Read Books Ltd

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• I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

  Steve Wozniak

  Next, Months, Economy

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• I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.

  Boris Johnson

  Stress, Believe, Envy

  "Boris Johnson says 'greed is good' in speech to honour Margaret Thatcher". www.scmp.com. November 28, 2013.

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• At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

  Lawrence Kohlberg

  Expectations, Groups, Maintenance

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• Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

  Jim Ryun

  War, Risk, Information

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  Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

  Robert Greene

  Mind, Pay, Waste

  Twitter post from Mar 16, 2016

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• Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Ink, Paper

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• Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Standards, Live By

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Gold Teeth, Enzymes, Crafts

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• The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

  Albert Einstein

  Coaching, Intuition, Method

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• Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Ideas, Differences, Empowerment

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

  Beverly Cleary

  Librarian

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• The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator.

  Shauna Singh Baldwin

  Like Love, Abuse, Violence

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• It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.

  John Hill Burton

  Book, May, Impossible

  John Hill Burton (1862). “The Book-hunter, Etc”, p.141, Edinburgh : S. Blackwood

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• The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the States, also known as the American Civil War.

  John Coleman

  War, Textiles, Wrecks

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• There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine should be supplied with a tape bearing a random series of figures, e.g., 0 and 1 in equal quantities, and this series of figures should be used in the choices made by the machine. This would result in the behaviour of the machine not being by any means completely determined by the experiences to which it was subjected, and would have some valuable uses when one was experimenting with it.

  Alan Turing

  Art, Mean, Choices Made

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• Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

  William Godwin

  Self, Mind, Statistics

  William Godwin (2006). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.53, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.

  Chris Ware

  Teacher, Art, Upset

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• I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for. Anyone who
  has new or valuable ideas to offer stands outside the intellectual status quo. But the status quo is not a stream, let alone a 'mainstream'.
  It is a stagnant swamp. It is the innovators who carry mankind forward.

  Ayn Rand

  Ideas, Intellectual, Honor

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