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“Any high school boy or girl knows how to calculate the force with which a stone he or she throws will hit someone in the face, but nothing in those equations they use will tell them whether or not to throw it...To solve the problem of values we must know what is valuable. Consciousness is the most valuable commodity...To bring values into science, we need to connect science with what is valuable consciousness.”

Knows Needs Use Problem School Faces Values Girl Force Consciousness Boys Know How High School Stones Valuable Solve Commodity Equations

Author:Ravi Gomatam

“Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.”

Silence Teacher Lessons Stones Communicate Valuable Observers Mute Valuable Lessons

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.”

World Stones Gold Valuable Comedian Commodity Precious Stones

Book:Groucho And Me

Source: Groucho And Me

“For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.”

Stones Crosses Gold Valuable Treasure Live By Precious Stones

Author:Basil Moreau

“One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those goddamn crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.”

“But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.”

Interesting Secret Stones Experience Defeat Valuable Stepping Stones

Author:Walter Russell