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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too. ↗

— Jim Valvano

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Truth is life's most precious commodity. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

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Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

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I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected. ↗

— Jeff Garcia

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She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

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Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

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Everything matters. Time is precious. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

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