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Value Quotes
"As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness."
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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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"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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"Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited."
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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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"First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker."
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"Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in."
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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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"A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value."
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"I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger."
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"We should propagate the values of vegetarianism."
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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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"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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"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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"Time is the ultimate wealth."
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"To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity."
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"A heart of gold is more precious than a necklace of diamonds."
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"It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis."
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"I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties."
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"The cheapest thing in your life is money; the most expensive, love."
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"Be a person of value, but never try to define your worth."
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"The sweetest apples are eaten first."
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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 individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group."
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"Richness does not exist in being wealthy, richness exists in having abundance in life."
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"How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us."
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"Water is gold in the desert."
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"A rough diamond is still worth more than a polished pebble."
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"Your mind is a gift. Your heart is a prize. Your soul is a blessing. Your life is a reward."
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"It's really true in this country that more and more Americans think that underneath the economic crisis there's a values crisis, and we won't get to an economic recovery without a moral recovery as well. So a citizen's movement about values and economics I'm finding all over the country on main street, and Wall Street needs to pay attention to that."
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"Money is a great asset, talent is an extraordinary asset, and courage is an exceptional asset."
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"Nothing exists that is more valuable than time."
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"Money is just time that is well converted."
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"Morality cannot replace goodness. Knowledge cannot replace wisdom. Fame cannot replace honor. Pleasure cannot replace contentment. Passion cannot replace love."
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"If they ask you how rich you are, tell them to look inside your heart."
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"Honey does not lose its sweetness because it is made by bees that sting."
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"A pond with one fish is better than an ocean with none."
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"If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe."
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"An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble."
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"A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves."
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