Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys."
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Valleys
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Adam Smith
Philosopher, Economist
"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
Stuart Wilde
Author, Speaker
"Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day."
Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary."
Neil Young
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks."
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"Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism."
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"Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons."
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"We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass."
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"The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse."
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"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
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"The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by."
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"Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape."
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"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil."
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"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair."
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"I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay."
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"If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountain top is not breathtaking."
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"If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things."
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"The highest virtue seems as low as a valley."
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"You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement."
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"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
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"This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it."
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"I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates."
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"Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley."
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"Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question."
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"On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine."
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