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Value Quotes
"There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits."
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"The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes."
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"I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values."
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"It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world."
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"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value."
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"Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value."
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"Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention."
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"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."
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"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier."
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"However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious."
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"I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators."
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"Richness does not come from wealth or splendor, but from an appreciation of those things that you cannot buy."
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"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values."
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"The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior."
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"If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it."
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"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."
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"To be is to be the value of a variable."
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"My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand."
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"Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community."
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"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them."
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"You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great."
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"It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless."
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"Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them."
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"As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness."
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"In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima."
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"If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements."
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"Time is the ultimate wealth."
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"It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen."
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"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them."
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"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep."
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"Money is just time that is well converted."
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"It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood."
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"Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values."
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"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values."
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"Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm."
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"Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs)."
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"I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal."
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