Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: worth

It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
~G H Hardy

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
~Clarence Darrow

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
~Reinhold Niebuhr

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But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
~John Perry Barlow

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Next Prompt: note

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Editor’s note: I will be returning to Colombia to finish the seventh and concluding book in my Archipelago & Oakley series. This edition of Wordgrove’s Post & Review is nearly twice the usual length, enough to provide you with thoughtful distraction until it resumes sometime in June.

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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
~Kirk Hammett

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
~Marsha Sinetar

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It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

I want to be remembered for doing something bigger than myself and making a positive impact on the world. I want to make my life worth something and to die a legend and to make my family proud.
~Jessie Reyez

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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
~Edith Wharton

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals this alone is worth the struggle.
~William Osler

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
~Walter Savage Landor

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Start with big dreams and make life worth living.
~Stephen Richards

All the things that are worth doing, take time.
~Mos Def

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
~George Lucas

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If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
~Bernard Hopkins

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.
~Kanye West

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
~Nikki Giovanni

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I’m definitely ruthless and selfish.
~Nicole Scherzinger

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Well, first of all, I’m worth every penny.
~Howard Stern

I’m high maintenance, but I’m worth it.
~Lara Logan

I make a lot of money and I’m worth every cent.
~Naomi Campbell

I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
~Karl Pilkington

A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.
~George Ade

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I’m laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
~Carlos Santana

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
~Thomas A Edison

No one can figure out your worth but you.
~Pearl Bailey

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A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
~Cullen Hightower

The success is worth nothing to me if I can’t share it with the people I love.
~Michael Buble

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
~Publilius Syrus

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People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it’s worth it, and it’s a great thing.
~Sugar Ray Leonard

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.
~Jewel

Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.
~Roy T Bennett

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.
~Confucius

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
~Malcolm X

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

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Suppose, however thickly evils crowd upon you, that your unconquerable subjectivity proves to be their match, and that you find a more wonderful joy than any passive pleasure can bring in trusting ever in the larger whole. Have you not now made life worth living on these terms? What sort of a thing would life really be, with your qualities ready for a tussle with it, if it only brought fair weather and gave these higher faculties of yours no scope?
~William James

With many men the question of life’s worth is answered by a temperamental optimism which makes them incapable of believing that anything seriously evil can exist. Our dear old Walt Whitman’s works are the standing text-book of this kind of optimism. The mere joy of living is so immense in his veins that it abolishes the possibility of any other kind of feeling:
~William James

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
~Ernest Hemingway

These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
~William James

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Posted From The Grove

Land: A part of the earth’s surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
~Ambrose Bierce

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, ‘Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for ‒ worth dying for.
~Margaret Mitchell

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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can’t win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
~Patricia Ireland

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
~Samuel Adams

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
~John Stuart Mill

May we understand that that which is worth having costs time, costs labor, and sometimes blood.
~Charles F Raymond

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
~Aristotle

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
~Norman Schwarzkopf

To die for one’s country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
~Pierre Corneille

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
~Ronald Reagan

Liberty is worth paying for.
~Jules Verne

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
~Tom Robbins

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There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war – nothing material or ideological – no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
~George Wald

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases… is an old-fashioned idea.
~Ron Paul

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
~Noam Chomsky

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Nato has always acted according to a simple principle: it is not worth attacking somebody who is strong.
~Andrzej Duda

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.
~Moshe Dayan

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
~Nancy Pelosi

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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
~Andrew Jackson

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
~Andrew Jackson

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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
~Milton Friedman

The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
~John Podhoretz (New York Post)

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The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
~James Otis

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
~Pat Riley

We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens’ faith. We must be trusted to always place the public’s good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.
~Jodi Rell

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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
~Queen Elizabeth II

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
~Baltasar Gracian

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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
~Adam Weishaupt

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A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons.
~Yolanda King

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
~John Dewey

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
~Socrates

No, when the fight begins within himself,
A man’s worth something.
~Robert Browning

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
~Adlai E Stevenson

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Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
~John Morley

Respect for another man’s opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
~Sargent Shriver

The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant.
~Theodore Dalrymple

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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
~Woodrow Wilson

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
~Thomas B Macaulay

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
~Henry L Stimson

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
~Grantland Rice

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren’t made for freedom spontaneously. There’s sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
~George Will

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You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law.
~Lyn Beth Neylon

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The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn’t mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
~Johnny Depp

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
~Og Mandino

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
~William Congreve

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
~Andrew Jackson

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
~James F Byrnes

As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth its while, good governance must be earned.
~Rohini Nilekani

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
~Charles Spurgeon

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
~Chuck Norris

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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
~Alexander Hamilton

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
~George Santayana

I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people ‒ in spite of people’s social standing or net worth or whatever it is ‒ the sooner it will stop.
~Jason Priestley

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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
~Nicolas Chamfort

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
~Jean Paul

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
~Evelyn Waugh

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Kneeling for the anthem does nothing to advance solutions to racial injustice, police brutality, or any other social plight. It is a slap in the face to patriotism itself. It is a statement that America as a country is no longer worth standing for.
~Matt Gaetz

Protest may overheat the blood, but its worth is starting the conversation.
~author unknown

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The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
~Frank Serpico

Americans have always prized individuality… but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum is worth far more than its individual parts.
~Evan Bayh

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Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love ‒ love knows that every American has worth and value
~Cory Booker

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To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you’re worth ‒ rather than what your employer is paying you.
~Alex Morgan

It is a fine game to play ‒ the game of politics ‒ and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
~Winston Churchill

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Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
~Molly Ivins

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Until you’ve looked a parent in the eye and told them their perfect child has a preexisting condition no insurance company will cover, you can’t tell me the Affordable Care Act isn’t worth fighting for.
~Ralph Northam

Paid leave is worth every penny.
~Stephen A Schwarzman

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It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
~Ben Carson

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.
~Bjorn Ulvaeus

Equity everywhere is worth fighting for.
~John Fetterman

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Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
~Che Guevara

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
~Georges Jacques Danton (stormed Bastille)

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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
~Lyndon B Johnson

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I’m not afraid of confrontation. It doesn’t have to be an argument. We all have a voice. And they are all worth listening to.
~Adam Goodes

In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
~Robert Kennedy

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There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don’t have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.
~Kalpana Chawla

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
~Oscar Peterson

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I’m not convinced that every secret has to be published. I think there are secrets worth keeping, and I think there are secrets not worth keeping.
~Seymour Hersh

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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
~Jimmy Carter

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
~Michelle Obama

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~Gabe Smart: Worth It (1:10) need inspiration?

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~Employzen: Self Worth (1:19) object lesson, convincingly val

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~Naghmeh Pour: Iran-e Man (2:13) a people worthy of their country

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When you’re bringing an idea to fruition, there are two distinct phases: the skeptic phase and the evangelist phase. During the first phase, you have to be willing to ask the hardest questions ‒ is this idea worth pursuing? But once you are convinced, you flip a switch. It’s about getting it done.
~Daniel Lubetzky

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~Theodore Roosevelt

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
~Thomas A Edison

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.
~Diane Wakoski

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
~Plato

The only secret of magic is that I’m willing to work harder on it than you think it’s worth.
~Penn Jillette

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All the time I was striving to be a man amongst men, and all the time I nursed secret and shameful desires for candy… I used to indulge in lonely debauches… I would go up to the Free Library, exchange my books, buy a quarter’s worth of all sorts of candy that chewed and lasted, sneak aboard the Razzle Dazzle, lock myself in the cabin, go to bed, and lie there long hours of bliss, reading and chewing candy. And those were the only times I felt that I got my real money’s worth. Dollars and dollars, across the bar, couldn’t buy the satisfaction that twenty-five cents did in a candy store.
~Jack London

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar’s worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.
~Guy Fieri

I discovered at age 13 that if a spoon had ‘Sterling’ on the back, it was worth money. I’d run around a swap meet and find 20 in a day, make 75 to 100 bucks by finding silver spoons.
~Rick Harrison

Be a worthy worker and work will come.
~Amit Kalantri

I’ve always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that’s the real test.
~Robert Fulghum

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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
~William James

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.
~Stephen Richards

Your net worth can fluctuate, but your self-worth should only appreciate.
~Chris Gardner

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
~Shirley Hufstedler

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Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
~Meir Kahane

I don’t covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren’t worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.
~Benny Hill

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
~Henry Ward Beecher

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
~Thomas Jefferson

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People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it’s worth it, and it’s a great thing.
~Sugar Ray Leonard

Doing hard things is worth it in the end. And not doing hard things doesn’t really leave you with much. So keep pushing. Keep going. Keep working hard. And keep enjoying the journey.
~Paul Holte

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
~Booker T Washington

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Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started Homeboy Plumbing. That didn’t go so well. Who knew? People didn’t want gang members in their homes. I just didn’t see that coming.
~Greg Boyle

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.
~Emile Hirsch

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.
~Warren Buffett

Uncertainty doesn’t make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
~Walter Kirn

My motto is more, ‘If you want to find something new, look for something new!’ There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
~Yves Chauvin (Nobel, chemist)

People who don’t gamble aren’t worth talking to.
~Isoroku Yamamoto

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Millions of dollars’ worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader’s intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
~James Randolph Adams

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound – indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
~Edward Tufte

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Assume the best intent in others around you. You will often be right, and even when you’re not, people can rise to your view of them. Not always, but enough that I believe it’s worth it.
~Sallie Krawcheck

APPRECIATE everything your associates do for the business… Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free — and worth a fortune.
~Sam Walton

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
~James Cash Penney

However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not ‘disgraced’ because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man’s life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.
~Jules Verne

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
~Elizabeth I

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
~William Penn

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The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
~Albert Schweitzer

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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It’s just cultural. People just don’t want to do it.
~Jack Welch

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Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores – these didn’t come out of nowhere.
~Paul Ryan

It’s worth noting that everything ‒ from the Internet to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media ‒ were pioneered by startups, not existing companies.
~Steve Blank

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.
~Marcus Aurelius

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Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they’re fine fellows and don’t need to explain themselves.
~James Buchan

It’s a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money’s worth.
~George M Humphrey

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Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
~Anna Julia Cooper

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
~Ron Chernow

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
~Nikolai Gogol

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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known – that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
~Norman O Brown

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It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.
~William Morris

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
~Sargent Shriver

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The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
~Steve Jobs

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The Super Bowl isn’t for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
~Andy Rooney

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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

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What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.
~Stanley Weiser

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When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, ‘Let’s get a better board’ can be helpful.
~Ben Horowitz

Meetings are the linchpin of everything. If someone says you have an hour to investigate a company, I wouldn’t look at the balance sheet. I’d watch their executive team in a meeting for an hour. If they are clear and focused and have the board on the edge of their seats, I’d say this is a good company worth investing in.
~Patrick Lencioni

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I have to be fully committed to do a project nowadays, because if I say yes to something, it means the whole family are going to have to move for the job. It’s a lot of upheaval. So, it has to be really worth it. Otherwise, I’d just as well not bother.
~Aaron Taylor-Johnson

To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
~Nargis Fakhri

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True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents’ worth of time.
~Orison Swett Marden

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don’t want to spend more time organizing than it’s worth.
~Daniel Levitin

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Bitcoin is like anything else: it’s worth what people are willing to pay for it.
~Stanley Druckenmiller

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As a general thing, I have not ‘duped the world’ nor attempted to do so… I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
~P T Barnum

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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
~Ayn Rand

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
~Paul J Meyer

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Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
~Ernest Shackleton

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
~Carter G Woodson

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In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.
~Levi Strauss

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.
~Christopher Columbus

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From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.
~Richard Branson

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
~Albert Einstein

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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it’s a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what’s good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
~Bill Bowerman

Two kinds of ballplayers aren’t worth a darn: One that never does what he’s told, and one who does nothin’ except what he’s told.
~Bum Phillips

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I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn’t feel worthy of that.
~Ricky Williams

As a player, you don’t put a price tag on your own head. You can’t go around thinking, ‘I’m worth that much.’
~Kyle Walker

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I’m worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don’t, I gave it all that I had to this game.
~Rafael Palmeiro

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
~Red Auerbach

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.
~Vera Wang

Legs and athleticism are worth nothing without mental toughness. You also need to be stubborn.
~Gonzalo Higuain

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? …There’s that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?
~LeBron James

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You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it’s worth it if you score a spectacular goal.
~Mia Hamm

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It’s not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it’s only a game.
~Rory McIlroy

If life doesn’t offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
~Anthony J D’Angelo

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Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it’s always worth trying, and trying now. Gamers don’t sit around.
~Jane McGonigal

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
~Babe Ruth

Nothing that comes easy is worth a dime.
~Woody Hayes

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
~Yogi Berra

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§ VIDEO:

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: ‘I’ve crossed oceans of time to find you.’ It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
~Gary Oldman

As an actor, I enjoy variety. That’s a big thing for me. So, if I’m going to put my name to something and commit to something that’s going to take up a lot of my time, it has to be something that I know is going to be enjoyable and worth my while. Otherwise, what’s the point?
~Tom Ellis

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Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
~Samuel Johnson

If a film can’t excite me and teach me something about life, then it is not worth pursuing.
~Vetrimaaran

It all starts with the script: it’s not worth taking myself away from my family if I don’t have something I’m really passionate about.
~Steven Spielberg

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Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that’s there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.
~Edward Zwick

If you’re lucky enough to be involved in a film that’s about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years’ time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.
~Eric Bana

I don’t really care where movies come from as long as they’re worth making.
~Javier Bardem

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When the first big paycheque with ‘Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‘Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?’ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
~Jim Carrey

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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
~Mark Twain

All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn’t – it’s not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you’re getting an award. And the next day, you’re getting a death threat.
~Nancy Friday

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made – and that’s a tricky balance.
~Alex Winter

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
~Gore Vidal

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
~Alfred Hitchcock

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I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life.
~Saul Bass

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?
~Tim Burton

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago – since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
~James Whitcomb Riley

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Was there ever a nation on God’s fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
~W E B Du Bois

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I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I’m working, it’s 100%. When I’m with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it’s pure joy and everything’s worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I’ve learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance.
~Monique Lhuillier

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I’m not sure the Great Ideas come to us when we’re looking for them. Most likely they come when we don’t expect them, like hiccups and hives. But it is worth trying.
~Jack Smith

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
~Edward de Bono

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
~Magnus Carlsen

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~Omeleto: Library of God (11:34) Guinness, Google, & the Book of Life

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Omeleto: Bound (13:28) meet-cute worth a view

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We’re going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I’m going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it’s worth a fortune. I’ll make this a work of magic warlock art.
~Charlie Sheen

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
~Luis Barragan

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I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it’s not worth enough to risk my private life being public.
~Matt Damon

I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.
~Jewel

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I’ve stood around bogs wearing half a million dollars’ worth of jewelry, up to my knees in the rot, thinking how much more or less the place smelled like a sewer than it did the day before.
~Scarlett Johansson

I’ve had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year’s worth of rent.
~Lady Gaga

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I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
~Edgar Winter

We’re charging what we’re worth and we don’t think we’re worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.
~Tre Cool

I’m potentially worth a lot of money, but I’ve got to go and make something that’s worth a lot of money.
~Daniel Craig

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Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
~Vivienne Westwood

Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.
~Christian Dior

If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it’s worth every penny.
~Rachel Roy

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We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
~Laurie Colwin

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A poet could write volumes about diners, because they’re so beautiful. They’re brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.
~David Lynch

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
~A J Liebling

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If this is the way nature punishes us for the consumption of indigestible food, I am sure it is worth while to be strictly temperate; I will therefore, in future, avoid soup and fish, and confine myself to one dish. I must not only attend to quantity, but quality. I may not be able to do this, — then I must die or be ill; but I am sure it is the best wisdom to do it.
~Martin H Fischer

All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive – it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don’t take any chances. It just isn’t worth it.
~Paris Hilton

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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
~Moliere

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
~Richard Le Gallienne

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I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.
~Anne Lamott

Scales always lie. They don’t make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
~Ann Voskamp

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
~Charles Dudley Warner

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For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.
~Tom Hiddleston

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
~Will Rogers

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To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
~Aeschylus

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn’t trust me.
~Joey Skaggs

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I’m looking for the crack in the fabric.
~Dick Gregory

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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
~Aleister Crowley

It’s easy to get swept up in the day to day ridiculous things that are in the news. They’re not meaningless, they’re legitimate and worth being engaged with. But it’s easy to get overwhelmed and swept up and forget what real life feels like.
~Phil Elverum

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§ MUSIC:

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.
~Lady Gaga

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I come away from a gig thinking, ‘Yeah, I’m worth something.’ I can still do it and entertain people, and that’s worth it.
~Rick Astley

As long as I’m still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
~Alan Jackson

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Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn’t.
~Sarah McLachlan

When I’m dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
~Freddie Mercury

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Look at music for what it’s worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it’s all about digital. The game is breaking down.
~Snoop Dogg

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Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don’t always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.
~Bill Dixon

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If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it’s worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It’s like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.
~Jewel

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There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
~Paul Hindemith

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Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
~ George Eastman

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
~Edward Steichen

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I don’t think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it’s certainly worth a try.
~Steven Spielberg

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals – its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
~Herbert Read

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The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
~Jerry Saltz

Nobody really needs a painting. It’s something you kind of create value for in a way that you don’t with a company. It’s an act of collective faith what an object is worth. Maintaining that value system is part of what a dealer does, not just making a transaction but making sure that important art feels important.
~Larry Gagosian

Kinkade’s paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I’d love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade’s work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.
~Jerry Saltz

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When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
~Julia Margaret Cameron

You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you’ve got to be different and even more better.
~Lil Durk

Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself.
~Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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~Colby Wright: Adeline Prado • Worth It (3:08) the good life, worth it

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~Gro Films Storytelling: Worth • Tides (6:10) surviving the vicissitudes of life

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~rundgrenfan: Todd Rundgren • An elpees worth of tunes (1:53) goofy, self-deprecating fun

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~Kris Kristofferson: The Highwaymen • Me and Bobby McGee (4:50) well-heeled, famous people singing ‒ nothing ain’t worth nothing but it’s free

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Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
~Laurence Marks (M*A*S*H • Hawkeye, 1973)

Feelings of loss and loneliness are inevitable when much of what makes life worth living is taken away.
~Wes Streeting

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
~Anna Louise Strong

When I find someone who is worth it, I’ll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.
~Ed Westwick

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
~Sara Teasdale

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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
~Ambrose Bierce

When somebody has convinced you that you’re not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.
~Ric Flair

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed,
by that false and inconsiderate notion,
That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
~Samuel Richardson

Don’t let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they’re bored and step on you when they’re done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.
~Philip Seymour Hoffman

The men who are available are just not worth it.
~Neelam Kothari

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
~Pearl Bailey

You know why divorces are so expensive? They’re worth it.
~Willie Nelson

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Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
~Bob Marley

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
~Paulo Coelho

If it doesn’t work out
there will never be any doubt
that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
~Jimmy Buffett

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My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it’s okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both.
~Lily Collins

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio.
What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for and what is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same. Only love.
~Lord Byron

What’s in a word, where’s the worth? If I banish loneliness and satisfy the human needs in you, is that not love? To say I need you, is that not saying I love you?
~author unknown

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that’s the really crazy thing.
~Amy Grant

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
~Warren Buffett

Money is worth nothing if it can’t buy you the opportunity to love more.
~Oprah Winfrey

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You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it.
~Casey Stengel

Not everything worth doing is worth doing well.
~Holly Richardson

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
~Mae West

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If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.
~Calum Scott

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
~R D Laing

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
~Elijah Wood

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A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God ‒ more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.
~Russell M Nelson

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.
~Margaret Cavendish

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Women rule the world. It’s not really worth fighting because they know what they’re doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
~Jon Bon Jovi

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman’s attention.
~Camille Paglia

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
~Mary McLeod Bethune

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A woman’s two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
~Loretta Lynn

Every four weeks I go up a bra size… it’s worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
~Natasha Hamilton

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
~Voltaire

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My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that’s a good grounding for a balanced life.
~Alan Cumming

The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, it really wasn’t worth it. In my family, you never knew when dinner was going to be. It could be at 7, or it could be at 10.
~Ethel Kennedy

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
~Virginia Satir

Success, and even life itself, wouldn’t be worth anything if I didn’t have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.
~Jude Law

When I was younger it was – you know, my dad dressed up in drag on ‘Bosom Buddies.’ And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.
~Colin Hanks

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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
~Zora Neale Hurston

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
~Democritus

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
~Francesco Guicciardini

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
~Homer

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
~Mary Browne

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
~Charles Darwin

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
~Cynthia Lord

I ask of life only that which makes it worth living: the love of friends.
~Justin Regier

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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
~Robert Southey

Talk to me as to your best dog, and you have the worth of me as your friend.
~author unknown

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
~George Herbert

That’s all small talk is ‒ a quick way to connect on a human level ‒ which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it’s worth making the effort.
~Lynn Coady

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Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world ‒ you don’t need to be your own worst enemy.
~Lucy Hale

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone – but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
~William Hazlitt

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~Graham Greene

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
~Euripides

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
~Ben Jonson

From quiet homes and first beginning,
out to the undiscovered ends,
there’s nothing worth the wear of winning,
but laughter and the love of friends.
~Hilaire Belloc

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A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
~Charles Lamb

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
~Steven Wright

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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
~H L Mencken

If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.
~Tom Lehrer

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
~William James

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
~Samuel Butler

If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.
~Johnny Carson

Sale Price — What something costs when it is priced only slightly above what it is worth; also what something is priced at the day after we bought it at a higher price.
~Richard E Turner

HOW TO GET TURTLE INTO THE SOUP
—Have amusements of turtle censored. Turtle will think life not worth living. Rush to fish market.
—Inform turtle soup is opportunity for service. Turtle will be sold on idea. Offer self.
—Turn advertisement writers loose on turtle. Turtle will read ads. Be fooled. Think soup blessed state.
—Throw pictures of soup on silver screen. Release to turtle. Turtle will be intrigued. Will leap for pan.
—Read pessimistic philosophers to turtle. Turtle will be discouraged. Think soup inevitable. Accept fate.
—Engage good comedian. Comedian will ridicule turtle. Make mock turtle soup.
~W W Scott

My husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that’s worth more than my head.
~Rita Rudner

A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
~Samuel Goldwyn

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o’clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.
~Moss Hart

You can’t do anything to be funny. That’s cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don’t make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.
~John Krasinski

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There is nothing ‒ absolutely nothing ‒ half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
~Kenneth Grahame

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.
~Morgan Freeman

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Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
~Amelia Earhart

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
~ Rene Descartes

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
~Alan Kay

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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
~Bertrand Russell

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
~Albert Camus

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Just taking risks for risk’s sake, that doesn’t do it for me. I’m willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I’ve worked so hard to make sure that I survive.
Chris Hadfield (Canadian astronaut)

If we die, we want people to accept it. We’re in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.
~Gus Grissom (died, Apollo 1 launch pad fire)

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I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.
~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one’s lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
~Gilbert Parker

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
~Zane Grey

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
~Karl Marx

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
~Emil Cioran

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?
~Geraldine Ferraro

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
~Gloria Naylor

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There are times you can’t really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
~Queen Latifah

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
~Steve Jobs

You can hit the lowest low and face the darkest dark, but you can always get back up and get in the light. All of this is what actually makes life worth living.
~Kerli

So here’s to all the little things,
the done-and-then-forgotten things,
those “Oh-it’s-simply-nothing” things,
that make life worth the fight.
~Grace Haines

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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
~H G Wells

As a parent, it’s my responsibility to equip my child to do this ‒ to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don’t know what happens after death.
~Sam Harris

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
~Christine Gregoire

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Pearl’s World
© David Lorenz Winston

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
~Walter Scott

Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
~Aphra Behn

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
~Sydney Smith

If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.
~Rhys Ifans

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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
~E W Howe

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
~James Russell Lowell

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

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Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards
~Marcus Luttrell

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!
~Henry S Haskins

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I’ve learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.
~Greg Behrendt

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
~Dutch proverb

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
~Thomas Huxley

Patience is better than wisdom: an ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few enough can practise it; it is a medicine which is good for all diseases, and therefore every old woman recommends it; but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with.
~Charles H Spurgeon

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
~Ambrose Bierce

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A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
~Ben Shneiderman

A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.
~author unknown

A picture’s worth a thousand words? A library card’s worth millions.
~Roy Blount, Jr

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
~Ronald Reagan

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
~Rudyard Kipling

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
~Michael Korda

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
~James A Garfield

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
~Mae West

An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise…
~James Howell

A pint of effort is worth a gallon of excuses.
~William Arthur Ward

An inch of cooperation is worth a yard of complaints.
~William Arthur Ward

An ounce of example is worth a pound of advice.
~William Arthur Ward

A nickel’s worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines.
~Martin H Fischer

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.
~Lemuel K Washburn (Is the Bible Worth Reading and Other Essays)

To be worthy does not mean to be perfect.
~Gerrit W Gong

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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
~Erich Fromm

He who can drink from the wayside stream need seldom go thirsty, and he who can find joy in the little things of life need never be without interest or worthy occupation or opportunities for service..
~Ernest J Bowden

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~Helen Keller

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
~Philip Sidney

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You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
~Tracy Kidder

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
~Immanuel Kant

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
~John Shelby Spong

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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
~Ovid

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
~Bernadette Devlin

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Nothing ain’t worth nothing but it’s free.
~Kris Kristofferson

Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months’ worth of entertainment.
~Mike Shinoda

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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
~Carl Jung

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
~Khalil Gibran

One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
~Saint Ignatius

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Kind words, a smile, a bit of encouragement or inspiration may seem but little things, of no account to many of us, yet they may be worth everything to some lonely or discouraged soul famishing for sympathy and encouragement.
~Orison Swett Marden

How slight a nod it would take, how bare a smile, to give everyone you meet today a sense of worth.
~Robert Brault

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
~John Ruskin

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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~Graham Greene

Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot… lying just isn’t worth it. But I think I’m guilty of telling people that I’m 5 minutes away when really I’m about 45 or an hour away.
~Monica Raymund

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, “This is a misfortune” but “To bear this worthily is good fortune.”
~Marcus Aurelius

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I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.
~Geronimo

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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

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Putting yourself out there is hard, but it’s so worth it. I don’t think anyone who has ever spoken out, or stood up or had a brave moment, has regretted it. It’s empowering and confidence-building and inspiring. Not only to other people, but to yourself.
~Megan Rapinoe

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I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.
~Brendan Fraser

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Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that’s really worth following in this world or the one that’s coming.
~Brennan Manning

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Nothing is worth more than this day.
~Goethe

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@Writers Platform

I can see the sun rise over the ocean, and watch it set over the bay… It seems as if almost nothing else were worth while, and I recall snatches of Homer’s and Virgil’s rhymes of the deep…
~Laura L Livingstone

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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort.
~Henry Rollins

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
~Ross Perot

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
~Benjamin Franklin

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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
~Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
~Steve Brown

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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
~Jane Porter

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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn’t worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
~Ezra Pound

Words may be imagined as the wrapping that poets mold around invisible thought. Words expressly chosen and the technique of their arrangement will set their worth. The more precisely trimmed, tightly fitted, colored, and perfectly folded they are, the more a reader will see of it. This separates out the poet from the pedantic and poetaster.
~author unknown

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
~Roland Barthes

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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
~Tad Williams

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It’s easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we’re preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that’s worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.
~Steven Spielberg

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
~Henry James

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
~Patrick Henry

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
~Antonin Artaud

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
~Moliere

If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you’ve created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there’s no conflict, there are no stories worth telling ‒ or reading!
~Veronica Roth

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
~Walter Pater

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don’t call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
~William Collins

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If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
~C S Lewis

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o’ the flatterer.
~William Shakespeare

Most people know no other way of judging men’s worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
~William Ellery Channing

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don’t have a lot of sympathy for because I’m just going to be with them too long.
~Richard Russo

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I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I’m capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don’t know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.
~Catriona Gray

I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
~Yami Gautam

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
~Michelangelo

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
~Aesop

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A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
~Mark Strand

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence – the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day – the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you’ve got something worth saying.
~Jennifer Weiner

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You’ll have that readership. Keep going until you know you’re doing work that’s worthy. And then see what happens. That’s my advice.
~Philip Levine

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With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
~Art Spiegelman

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
~Joseph Addison

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And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent… and for me, it’s just been so worth the effort. It’s like I’m planting a garden in my head.
~Jane Campion

The sound of water is worth more than all the poets’ words.
~Octavio Paz

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Prewritten Prompt: worth

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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
~Simone Weil

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
~Jacques Maritain

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
~E W Howe

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Nothing happens in the mind that doesn’t happen in the body. They are one… Our spiritual intent realigns our misaligned emotional body.
~Max Strom (A Life Worth Breathing: A Yoga Master’s Handbook)

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha’s atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
~Walter Kaufmann

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Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
~Nicolas Malebranche

And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
~Neil Gaiman

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If there is one tree that man needs to eat of, it is the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil; and if any knowledge will keep him alive and make him happy and perfect, it is just this knowledge which God forbid him to acquire. We are dying to-day from ignorance, not from knowledge…
~Lemuel K Washburn (Is the Bible Worth Reading and Other Essays)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
~Galileo Galilei

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With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
~Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.
~Edwin Louis Cole

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
~John Lancaster Spalding

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
~Plato

I’d realize it’s not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
~Taya Kyle

For only the serene soul is strong. Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat. Worry is an infirmity; there is no virtue in it. Worry is spiritual near-sightedness; a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value. True spiritual vision sweeps the universe and sees things in their right proportion.
~Anna Robertson Brown (What Is Worth While?)

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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
~Hans Urs von Balthasar

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
~Billy Graham

You have options. In a worthy justice there’s no need for judgment. That you experience all the consequences of the life you chose is your worthy justice. I think there’s a dungeon.
~author unknown

In theater or movies you see either ‘I’m religious’ or ‘I’m an atheist.’ I’ve never seen too much discussion of ‘I believe there’s a higher power but I’m hesitant to reach out to him because I don’t know if I’m worthy of his attention.’
~Zach Braff

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Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
~Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.
~Roger Mahony

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The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad’s confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
~Louis Farrakhan

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.
~Izaak Walton

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In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.
~Winona LaDuke

Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.
~Norman Geisler

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.
~Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation ‒ veneer isn’t worth anything.
~George Washington Carver

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
~Beverly Sills

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The unexamined life is not worth living.
~Socrates

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
~Theodore Roosevelt

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
~Jon Meacham

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Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don’t pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we’re alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.
~Parker Palmer

What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it’s not worth talking about.
~Francis Spufford

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What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.
~Cesar Chavez

In the sick room, ten cents’ worth of human understanding equals ten dollars’ worth of medical science.
~Martin H Fischer

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
~George Bernard Shaw

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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
~William Blake

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
~Richard P Feynman

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
~Galileo Galilei

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It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
~Edouard Manet

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
~Clifford Geertz

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It’s not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It’s an extraordinary place; it’s worth spending time there.
~Marcus du Sautoy

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An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
~John Tukey

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
~Henry David Thoreau

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
~Arthur C Clarke

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Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.
~Jared Diamond

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The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
~Steve Jobs

Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
~David Ansel

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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
~Margaret Mead

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
~Claude Bernard

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
~Krzysztof Kieslowski

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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
~Arthur C Clarke

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
~Louis D Brandeis

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
~Alfred P Sloan

Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
~Aristophanes

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Map out your future ‒ but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
~Jon Bon Jovi

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It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
~David Attenborough

It has been said that in human life there are moments worth ages… in the climate of England there are, for the lover of Nature, days which are worth whole months, — I might say — even years.
~William Wordsworth

If we tarry a little while, we shall behold a sunset on the ocean,—a sight worth traversing a kingdom to see… The colours have changed as if by the moving of a fairy wand—a happy union of fire and its great antagonist.
~Henry James Slack

Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither…
~William Wordsworth

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If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
~Henri Poincare

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
~Wendell Berry

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Students, keep your eye still fixed upon the day, work honestly for it, it is worth striving for. There is gold of wisdom ahead of you to be had for the digging, there are flowers of delight which may be yours for the plucking; and whether you find the gold or gather the flowers depends upon you.
~Louise E Hollister

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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
~Bertrand Russell

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
~Oscar Wilde

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
~Satyajit Ray

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
~Walter Scott

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
~Harry S Truman

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Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
~Howard Gardner

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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
~Quintilian

I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
~A C Benson

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
~Elizabeth Hardwick

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Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
~G M Trevelyan

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
~Aldo Leopold

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
~Thomas Jefferson

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Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years’ worth of education.
~Julian Bond

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
~Carter G Woodson

I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
~G-Eazy

Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
~Lorraine Hansberry

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Education is worth its weight in gold. Make no mistake about it.
~Clyde Drexler

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
~Michelle Obama

The tassel’s worth the hassle!
~author unknown

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As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.
~Kendrick Lamar

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi… has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
~Thurgood Marshall

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§ The Exercise:

trackless ditties

tech can pry
enter premises
fool eyes with lies
renege on promises

broken records
falling steeples
inquiry boards
fallen people

doubt that machines feel
to hear one scream will
scratch the vinyl
with diamond needle

what holds us whole
molds us holy
defines the soul
our worth solely

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tic toking @heaven’s door

loose-fitted door in its doorway
with light leaking out
around it
a halo only
surrounds it ‒
the hidden image

sacred naked
unadorned
vision’s rapture
divine torture
closed to the eye ‒
beauty at her bath

if dreams had futures
lush perfection
worth adoration
nature sanctified
authentic Deity Design ‒
defeated by a door

the waste of beauty
crime as victim
returned to God
gift unopened
and grieve the loss ‒
an altogether shame

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assessment #23

artists working fields unsure of their worth
captains of commerce feathering their wealth
talented seeds do scatter the earth
genius in guise, flowers and thorns
such are the cards history has dealt

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economy & country

birth of a nation
worth its creation
destiny manifest
world bleeding it’s best
to feed this child
born of the wilds

strivers need challenge
genius, its freedom
talent, expression
love, its variety
as greed craves its lucre
as the helpless want hope

need for new seed
magnet to irony
buyers knock at the door
empty shelves in the store

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whim of weather

birds and leaves
blue skies, oh my
but a calendar tease
the ‘why’ we cry

few hours of sun
more weeks of rain
kills the fun
invites the pain

hammer of summer
from winter to woe
mosquitoes a bummer
warming fires turned foe

summer’s a season
has purpose and reason
each in its place
the year’s not a race

but here’s the thing
baffled, left grappling
what the deuce happened
to the promise of spring

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shackles

thoughts are confining
to wild unstabled reality
words as nails for defining
pinning hides to the wall
adages to nature’s poetry

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Gravestone Etching

Took the fall for me
Gave it all for free
No, not that story
But the worth of a friend

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5s ‘n 7s

roast on spits of comedy
rude hot worthy ridicule
binged on sweets, lies of liars
politicians’ need to serve
troubadours who sing of love

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conflict detection
unearth the fictions
country’s dissection
not worth the frictions
legal defections
provoked assassins
change of direction

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feel, smell smoke’s texture
sacred ritual
able to alter
worthy of lighting
new sense its incense
red burns the altar
tamed fire to rescue

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ash, soot and cinder
pol’s reputation
worth validation
poll situation
national splinter
prick under the skin
fire’s phoenix recast

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large storms earn a brand
big boys in the band
breezes plead, us please
play-tickle-sport-tease
we are worth more, these
names we understand
breathed gentle Louise

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worth a suggestion
just consider digestion
when swallowing lies
historic, poisonous tries
hemlock, arsenic and lye

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lengthening shadows
tractor threads the green distance
bass line thrum of life
backup drone to the birdsong
chorus full worthy of life

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mountain vale setting
red barns, fields, faithful fences
worthy of sunsets

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stumbled into love
hiking hillbilly mountain
yup, werth ‘t fer shur

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no reversal there
but a worthy fail instead
trade industry said

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weird truth about trees
who won’t budge, lie about age
worth their weight in wood

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dark flying ravens
worthies of the blacker night
dream weaving pilots

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too bored, then dared to
test the worthiness of life
signed out having lived

for Dal, and others

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
~Jean Rostand

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
~Jean Rostand

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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
~Annie Dillard

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
~Pierre Corneille

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Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
~Abraham Lincoln

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr

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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
~Eugene Ionesco

Muscles. We’re talking about muscles? They’re like pets, basically, and they’re not worth it. They’re just not worth it. You have to feed them all the time and take care of them, and if you don’t, they just go away. They run away.
~Ryan Gosling

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By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
~Don Marquis

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
~Louis Nizer

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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
~Margaret Fuller (pioneering feminist)

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
~Ezra Pound

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A hare in the hand is worth two in the bush.
~author unknown

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
~William Hazlitt

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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
~Henry Ward Beecher

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
~Thomas Fuller

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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
~Benjamin Franklin

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
~John Irving

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I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
~Hedy Lamarr

Most of us really aren’t horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put ’em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.
~Herbert Simon

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Every time I start to get worked up over something, I just think to myself, ‘Is this really going to matter in my life tomorrow, in an hour, in a year?’ You just can’t get stressed about the little things ’cause it’s just not worth it at the end of the day.
~Kylie Jenner

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too
~Nas

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You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
~Gustave Flaubert

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing.
~Terry Pratchett

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If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
~Edwin Land

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
~Paul Samuelson

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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
~Alice Walker

You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.
~Craig Bruce

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Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
~Emo Philips

If you’re not having fun it’s not worth doing.
~Tommy Bolin

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it’s the transparency that counts.
~Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run… but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.
~Victor Cherbuliez

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The only success worth one’s powder was success in the line of one’s idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
~Henry James

Follow your passion. Nothing ‒ not wealth, success, accolades or fame ‒ is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don’t enjoy.
~Jonathan Sacks

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‘Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while
is the one who will smile
when everything goes dead wrong.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It’s worth being bashed against. It’s worth getting scarred by. It’s worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
~Jeff Buckley

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