“ In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilization of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
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“ A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for it. ”
- Earl Warren- Copy
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“ I just wake up and say, "You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.". ”
- Garth Brooks- Copy
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“ No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect. ”
- Edward Teller- Copy
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“ The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results. ”
- Grenville Kleiser- Copy
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“ The key principles are very beneficial to consumers - they deserve to have us putting new capabilities in. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
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“ There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta. ”
- William Osler- Copy
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“ I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise. ”
- Peter Singer- Copy
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“ Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20. ”
- Dylan Moran- Copy
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“ What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are. ”
- Edgar Z. Friedenberg- Copy
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“ You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. ”
- Alan Paton- Copy
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“ I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life…Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe. ”
- Abigail Adams- Copy
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“ Two darling sons, and a brother, have I lost by savage hands, which have also taken from me forty valuable horses, and abundance of cattle. ”
- Daniel Boone- Copy
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“ Chirac has been excessively generous towards the British. There has been a very constructive mood. ”
- Goran Persson- Copy
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“ Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the things itself, by people. ”
- John Barth- Copy
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“ Mourning is not forgetting… It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. ”
- Margery Allingham- Copy
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“ The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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