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Value Quotes
"We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into shoes - but I was passionate about customer service."
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"I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal."
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"Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in."
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"Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk."
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"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."
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"That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together."
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"Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others."
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"And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities."
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"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."
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"The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable."
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"Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with."
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"Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured."
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"Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good."
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"The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred."
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"Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community."
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"If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think."
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"Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution."
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"There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about."
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"You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective."
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"I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that."
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"A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value."
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"Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans."
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"Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values."
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"OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it."
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"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values."
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"The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same."
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"Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them."
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"The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see."
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"Anything that changes your values changes your behavior."
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"First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker."
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"You are no greater than the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbor, and the experiences you cherish."
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"Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess."
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"But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them."
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"Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties."
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"We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation."
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"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
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"Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend."
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"Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us."
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"What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both."
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