David Livingstone Quotes
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
David Livingstone
Quotes to Explore
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
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Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
Pamela Meyer
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
Warren Buffett
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Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
F. Sionil Jose
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The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
Kalpana Chawla
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl Warren
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
Ida Tarbell
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Carl Sandburg
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
Gabe Newell
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I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'
Ed Asner
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word 'experience' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. It is to be feared, however, that if the word is avoided the confusions of thought with which it has been associated may persist.
Bertrand Russell
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What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?
Douglas Coupland
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At best Americans give but limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.
Ralph Ellison
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Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
Jack Kent Cooke
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My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.
Trent Reznor
Nine Inch Nails
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I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
David Livingstone
