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«Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.»
«There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.»
Author: James Nathan Miller
| About:
Conversation,
Questioning
| Keywords:
breath, conversation, provided, worthless
«Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
| Keywords:
combination, cover, ink, inked, inking, paper, perfectly, worthless
«One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself»
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
(Editor, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Self-respect
| Keywords:
surprising, worthless
«It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.»
«There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Mistakes
| Keywords:
argued, badly, conclusion, hasty, worthless
«Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent: but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
apartments, celebrity, eastern, endowment, endowments, illuminating, impartially, kindles, modes, opulent, sends, The Apartments, valley, worthless
«It is better to busy one's self about the smallest thing in the world than to treat a half hour as worthless»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
half-hour, smallest, the smallest, worthless
«Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
babe, Babes in, bow, builder, clay, cloud, cradle, cradles, enchanter, enchanters, evening, evening star, fills, first light, From the Cradle, hearth, hearths, immortality, inspirer, kinder, kings, Kings of, magician, melodies, melody, morning star, patriot, philosopher, radiance, royal, sheds, shed light on, shines, The King of Hearts, The Magician, The Morning Star, The Mother, The Quiet, To Joy, worthless
«There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
preserving, worthless
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