Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

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The Value Of Innocence

I ONCE HAD A MOST VALUABLE POSSESION,
MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD AND SILVER,
MORE VALUABLE THAN DIAMONDS AND RUBBIES,
YEA, EVEN MORE VALUABLE THAN BRIMSTONE,
NOW I LIVE WITHOUT MY MOST CHERISHED POSSESION,
YEA, NOW I LIVE WITHOUT MY INNOCENCE!
YEA, I HAVE LOST MY IGNORANCE!
NOW, ALL I HAVE IS WISDOM, AND KNOWLEDGE,
CLOTHED WITH COAL AND LORBS,
YET, MY MOST VALUED POSSESION WAS MY INNOCENCE AND IGNORANCE,
YEA, IT WAS INDEED MORE VALUABLE THAN ALL THE WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORLD!

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Ambrose Bierce

A Pickbrain

What! imitate me, friend? Suppose that you
With agony and difficulty do
What I do easily-what then? You've got
A style I heartily wish _I_ had not.
If I from lack of sense and you from choice
Grieve the judicious and the unwise rejoice,
No equal censure our deserts will suit
We both are fools, but you're an ape to boot!

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To A Poet Of Quality. Praising The Lady Hinchinbroke

Of thy judicious Muse's sense,
Young Hinchinbroke so very proud is,
That Sacharissa and Hortense
She looks henceforth upon as dowdies.

Yet she to one must still submit,
To dear Mamma must pay her duty;
She wonders, praising Wilmot's wit,
Thou shouldst forget his daughter's beauty.

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Victory be theirs

The tar in the streets more valuable than the soil on which they sleep
The tag on my shirt more valuable than their bed positioned in dirt
The crown on my head more valuable than seeing them dead

The victory of our team
The goals for which we dream
The bank account
The dance about
The car we drive
The randela for which we thrive

Our comfort
Our pleasure
Every accomplished treasure

More than
the breath they breathe
the water they drink
the food they eat
and the thought they speak

Victory be theirs

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The Most Valuable

Which is the most valuable?
‘My life’ said all men alike.
Nothing is the most valuable
That man is willingly possesses.

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So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

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Tongue In Cheek (2)

Some things written with tongue-in-cheek
Misunderstood can cause some pique
If someone who is humorless
Fails to see your fun finesse

Humor is a trait to treasure
A trait most often spreading pleasure
To spread a laugh, a smile or two
Seems the human thing to do

Yet sometimes when one’s too cheeky
He may seem to some a bit too freaky
So it may be wise to show restraint
‘Cause freaky is what you know you ain’t

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Verordnet Diesem Geschlecht Keinen Glauben

Do not decree faith on this race,
stars, ships and smoke are enough;
it is concerned with things, determines
stars and mathematical infinity,
and a trait, call it trait of love,
emerges more purely from it all.

The heavens hang limp, and stars come loose
from the juncture with moon and night.

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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

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Joe Flanigan

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

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What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

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To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

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Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

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I may be wrong

I’m sure I’ve passed this way before
and certain that I will again
I do not worry any more
although some questions still remain.

What is my purpose in the plan.
I do not know and none can say
what is the value of a man?
What role am I supposed to play?

I do believe I’m here to learn,
gain valuable experience.
As every soul must in its turn.
It seems to me to make more sense.

Than being judged on one life span.
A moment in eternity
It’s far beyond the scope of man
to reach perfection speedily.

I’m sure I’ve walked this road before
and certain that I will again.
Obedient to the Karmic law
which rules the fate of everyman.

I don’t believe vague promises
that learned priests all guarantee.
Visions of their paradises,
which simply don’t make sense to me.

28-Jan-08

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Ivo Andric

From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.

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Annie Leibovitz

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

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Sense In Valuing

Which language is sweet?
Mother tongue;
Which woman is reliable?
Mother;
Which child is lovely?
Mine to me;
Which God is assuring?
Mine to me;
Which is most valuable?
My life;
Is there any sense in valuing?

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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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