"Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics."

Values, Commonsense, Future, Present

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"Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics."

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"Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Values, Value

"Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' but remembers that there are things more important to him than what he is in the mood for at any given moment, and orders something else. Who is the sentimentalist?"

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"I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command not obey."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"It is better to seek purity than the pleasure of sin."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Life's value is lost when the pursuit of money becomes the goal as opposed to the pursuit of true happiness."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn't there before they arrived."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

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"If you help someones bank account rise But you can't help their heart feel... Really, what is your value?"

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"Do not love money more than yourself."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"What you do with your time on a daily basis determines what values will be added to your life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Don't let money change your direction, that's the job of the giver of the money."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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