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Value Quotes
"To be is to be the value of a variable."
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"There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits."
54
"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
52
"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."
44
"It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world."
40
"I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values."
38
"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."
36
"Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention."
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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."
31
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value."
30
"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."
25
"Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value."
24
"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier."
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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."
23
"I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators."
22
"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."
22
"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values."
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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."
21
"Richness does not come from wealth or splendor, but from an appreciation of those things that you cannot buy."
21
"The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values."
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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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"America does not fight for land, glory or riches."
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"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep."
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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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"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)."
18
"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."
17
"Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values."
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"We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give."
17
"My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand."
17
"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them."
16
"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them."
16
"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."
16
"We need someone who is a strong representative of our value system."
15
"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."
15
"Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being."
15
"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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