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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much...

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Only expectation has value as currency,

I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's...

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The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff a...

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Brian TracyEat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one o...

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In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ...

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The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich signific...

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C. S. LewisOn Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of ...

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When I discussed the nature of value, I observed that value is nothing inherent in goods and that it...

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Carl MengerPrinciples of Economics

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single lar...

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Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life sh...

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Cassandra ClareThe Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period withou...

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We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet...

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Something that is yours forever is never precious

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Chaim PotokMy Name Is Asher Lev

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they re...

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Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing hi...

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Charles BabbagePassages from the Life of a Philosopher

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

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Charles DarwinThe Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money...

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... it is shameful that there are so few women in science... In China there are many, many women in ...

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Cheap booze is a false economy.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res...

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Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res...

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But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I mu...

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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be v...

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As a scientist I have come to learn that information isonly as valuable as its source.

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to...

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For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now w...

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Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you t...

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David Allen (author)Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff D...

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One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you...

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This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of natu...

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Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties lea...

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You only value something if you know it’ll end.

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

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dep...

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Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic...

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I'd sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collecti...

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Douglas CouplandGeneratie X: Vertellingen voor een versnelde cultuur

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so c...

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A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat o...

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When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money ...

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The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'...

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People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I ...

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In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value w...

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Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet i...

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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He call...

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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men stil...

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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosoph...

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We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking ...

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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of thei...

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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a ...

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In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we co...

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As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union,...

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The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all econ...

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May those who enjoy the faithful ministry of the Word feel exceedingly thankful for it. There are fe...

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So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing a...

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It is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union...

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George WashingtonGeorge Washington's Farewell Address

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians an...

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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamon...

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Graham GreeneThe Heart of the Matter

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose...

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It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...

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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum tot...

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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. B...

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We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by sugge...

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H. P. LovecraftAgainst Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. ...

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People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a w...

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Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place exce...

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The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it,...

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The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they e...

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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we c...

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Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for peopl...

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Hunter S. ThompsonKingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [...

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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of...

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As the several items can be exchanged, they must be equal; but in what terms? Not in pounds, yards, ...

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Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the emp...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can atta...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual ...

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We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still tryi...

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Jacques MonodChance and Necessity

We face cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, global cyber syndicates, and t...

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I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve...

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Each category is generalized to the greatest possible extent, so that it eventually loses all specif...

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Jean BaudrillardThe Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without qu...

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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, ...

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I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's que...

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Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.