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O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called ...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, a...

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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Is it really worth dying for the person you lo

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...

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The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness...

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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection th...

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But a society in which pluralism is not undergirded by some shared values and held together by some ...

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Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order ...

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Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.

Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, ...

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José Ortega y GassetAn Interpretation of Universal History

I've tried to prepare my daughter for the phenomenon I've experienced of beautiful young women being...

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Kathleen TurnerSend Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanc...

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Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself ...

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Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before he...

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Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, ...

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No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again witho...

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The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral fo...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King

Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for q...

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That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

Man is encased, as though in a shell, in the particular ranking of the simplest values and value-qua...

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The uniform is that which we do not choose, that which is assigned to us; it is the certitude of the...

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In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all ...

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Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to pr...

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if you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to ...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, ...

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You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social ju...

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They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your st...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how ...

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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday ...

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It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in w...

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed them...

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The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hosti...

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In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, ...

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Adharmenaidhate tabat, tato bhadrani pashyati, tatah sapatnan jayati, - samulastu vinashyati. In unr...

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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four ye...

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Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands...

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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to ha...

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferab...

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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead inst...

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Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religio...

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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are ...

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Richard BachIllusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being a...

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Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundat...

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Rollo MayThe Courage to Create

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the founda...

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Rollo MayThe Courage to Create

If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and wome...

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Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, bu...

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As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' ...

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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business ...

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Samuel JohnsonThe Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education the...

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Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human valu...

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I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the pur...

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- What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on...

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There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. Th...

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It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a pers...

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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night...

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It's political, sir. Apparently he wants a return to the values and traditions that made the city gr...

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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...

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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its valu...

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If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate w...

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If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate w...

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Tom RobbinsStill Life with Woodpecker

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values again...

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You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little...

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Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may ...

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Wendell BerryThe Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to...

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The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

"If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to opinions, you will never b...

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Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changi...

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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the trut...

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you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtf...

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Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversi...

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Alain de BottonReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the...

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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I belie...

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...they are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramot...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,Are what ten thousand envy and adore:All, all look up, wit...

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In our life there is one side which is finite and another side which is infinite. I want you to thin...

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I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless w...

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Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I w...

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Anna QuindlenHow Reading Changed My Life

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, ...

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I consider marriage a very important institution, but it is important when and if two people have fo...

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Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction...

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To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret...

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Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a m...

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Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is t...

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