#worth

Context is worth 80 IQ points. ↗

— Alan Kay

#iq #points #worth

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth. ↗

— Roy Keane

#anything #enough #i #i am #less

Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale. ↗

— Betsy Lerner

#weight #food

One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#elected #elected officials #favors #may #officials

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#adult #basic #children #even #fifteen

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#closed #compromise #conciliation #conflict #dignity

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. ↗

— Simone Weil

#does #god #nearer #science #us

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#lived #living #unexplored #worth #worth living

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#book #harden #into #lightly #look

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#fun #might #plain #price #sailing