#treasure

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. ↗

— Felix Adler

#almost #attention #capital #civilization #country

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#adapt #american #asked #country #customs

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#art #country #coveted #endearing #enhance

The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. ↗

— Robert Dold

#arctic #arctic national wildlife refuge #care #i #illinois

The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#men #men and women #national #treasure #women

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend. ↗

— Andreas Capellanus

#compared #finds #found #friend #mankind

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#arthur ashe #ashe #breath #certainly #even

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#kept #memory #mind #monuments #preserved

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. ↗

— John Donne

#any #enough #hath #man #man hath

I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#columbia #house #i #series #television