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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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"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
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"To be is to be the value of a variable."
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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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"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."
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"Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention."
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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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"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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"Richness does not come from wealth or splendor, but from an appreciation of those things that you cannot buy."
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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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"I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators."
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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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"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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"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values."
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"The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values."
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"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep."
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"My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand."
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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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"We need someone who is a strong representative of our value system."
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"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with 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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"Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values."
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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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"America does not fight for land, glory or riches."
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"The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors."
10
"Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values."
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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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"The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice."
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"We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching."
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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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