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«The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.»
«I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.»
Author: Jerry Gillies
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«The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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«Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Education,
Tolerance
| Keywords:
learns, lesson, like it, most-valuable, thoroughly, training
«Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.»
Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
antiques, dear, most-valuable, valuable
«Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.»
«The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
automobiles, bonded, bonding, bonds, empathy, friendships, houses, in bonds, in stock, lands, measured, mercy, monetary, most-valuable, state, stocked, stocked with, stocking, stocks, terms, valuable, with mercy
«Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Perseverance,
Tact
| Keywords:
most-valuable, mount, tact, The Crowd
«Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe»
«The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Talent,
Words
| Keywords:
most-valuable, talents
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