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Value Quotes
"To be is to be the value of a variable."
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"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
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"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."
57
"It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world."
57
"I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values."
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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."
44
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value."
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"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."
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"Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention."
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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."
35
"While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR's values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended."
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"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier."
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"We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give."
30
"Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value."
29
"The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before."
28
"America does not fight for land, glory or riches."
28
"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."
28
"I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value."
28
"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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"The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value."
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"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values."
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"I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators."
26
"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them."
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"Richness does not come from wealth or splendor, but from an appreciation of those things that you cannot buy."
25
"You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great."
25
"President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values."
25
"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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"The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice."
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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."
24
"The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values."
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"Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values."
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"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep."
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"OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it."
23
"Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values."
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"Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values."
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