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Value Quotes


"Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community."


"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."



"In 2003, the value of Airbus's orders was more than twice as much as Boeing's."


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


"This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear."


"We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs."


"Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values."


"Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited."


"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."


"Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values."


"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)."


"I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you."


"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."


"The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important."


"The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected."


"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."


"Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics."


"Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess."


"As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness."


"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."


"If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think."


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


"You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it."


"The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged."


"There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about."


"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."


"All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings."


"If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip."


"Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being."



"We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along."


"Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions."


"I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement."


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


"Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others."


"OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it."


"The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values."


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


"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values."


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