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• I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. ‘Please don’t take away our precious Soviet Union! – We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!’

  Craig Bruce

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  Every life is precious.

  Rick Perry

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• Our nation’s children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.

  Christopher Dodd

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• There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

  Edmund Hillary

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• Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

  Theocritus

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• When Honor’s sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

  Edward Cocker

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• We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

  Edward Dahlberg

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• When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.

  Edwin Booth

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• Truth is life’s most precious commodity.

  Edwin Louis Cole

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  We’ll go to that place that’s quiet and dry and talk about precious things.

  Douglas Coupland

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• Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

  Emily Bronte

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• He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

  Emily Dickinson

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• 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

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• Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

  Tim Berners-Lee

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• Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

  Mary Schmich

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• Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

  Felix Adler

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• There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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• The most precious things in speech are pauses.

  Ralph Richardson

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• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi’ favours secret, sweet and precious.

  Robert Burns

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