If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962.
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.
GE Appliances has agreed to give my mom a whole kitchen's worth of new appliances and a washer and dryer, and all I need to do is shout them out.
I'm aware that not everyone approved of how I played, but I don't think any apologies are in order. Early in my career, I decided that it was worth it to do whatever was necessary to earn the extra split second it takes to make a pass or shoot the puck.
I was the Playmate editor for 'Playboy' for two years. I produced two years' worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that, from picking the girls to designing the sets to picking the wardrobe, coming up with themes, assigning the photographer, down to editing the photos and approving the retouching.
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
Customers who have to come back and spend, or customers who just don't want the hassle of leaving - those are the ones who are most worth attracting.
The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
