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Value Quotes


"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."


"It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world."


"I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values."



"To be is to be the value of a variable."


"There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits."



"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."


"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."


"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."


"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."



"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value."


"If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements."



"I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value."


"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."


"Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value."


"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values."



"America does not fight for land, glory or riches."



"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier."


"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them."


"Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention."


"We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give."


"The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors."


"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."


"Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with."


"Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values."


"President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values."


"In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture."


"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."


"Richness does not come from wealth or splendor, but from an appreciation of those things that you cannot buy."


"The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before."



"Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values."



"The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values."


"There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved."


"I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators."


"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep."


"The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value."


"Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values."


"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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