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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ab...

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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ne...

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A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectifi...

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As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of lab...

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A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectifi...

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The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of th...

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Karl MarxEconomic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a on...

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Kathy AckerEurydice in the Underworld

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial valu...

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The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish c...

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He who does not value life does not deserve it.

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in qua...

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Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in qua...

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Louis L'AmourEducation of a Wandering Man

Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental me...

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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries...

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Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to st...

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Malala YousafzaiI Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...

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Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, s...

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... the objects which we admire have no absolute value in themselves...

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love...

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People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. ...

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When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?

I think that in our earlier history--the Gettysburg Address or something--there was the conscious se...

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Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of ...

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Max PlanckWhere is Science Going?

God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors, and blemishes. But He also sees ...

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Max LucadoLar: I Never Knew That Was in the Bible: Inspirational Thoughts for Each Day of the Year

If i cherish you because I hold you dear, because in you my heart finds nourishment, my need satisfa...

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The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find...

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You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagina...

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There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanct...

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Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine...

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Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of...

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Gold is the corpse of value...

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself ...

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You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said a...

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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens ...

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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an econo...

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We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised ec...

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I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and ...

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Why do they make things so complicated?""So that those who have the responsibility for understanding...

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When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The vi...

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I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...

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When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The vi...

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I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me...

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What is it about your race that none of you can seem to properly weigh your own value? Every human s...

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningle...

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The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious ...

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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, a...

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Richard CourantWhat Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the envir...

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Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery ...

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Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people pa...

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From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes p...

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Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must ...

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Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.

If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should ...

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Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the thing...

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Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.

Do extremely difficult work.That seems obvious, right? If you do something that's valued but scarce ...

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The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indis...

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How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the ...

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or di...

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It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — ...

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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been...

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Stephen CraneThe Portable Stephen Crane

If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point th...

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But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount...

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Never dismiss anyone's value until you know him.

By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by b...

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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. N...

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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutral...

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Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though ...

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Statements of fact are after all statements, which presumes a number of questionable judgements: tha...

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Terry EagletonLiterary Theory: An Introduction

All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and in...

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Terry EagletonLiterary Theory: An Introduction

Rincewind stared, and knew that there were far worse things than Evil. All the demons in Hell would ...

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But what's worth more than gold?""Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weig...

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Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possi...

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is ...

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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in co...

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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want...

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He can't value you more than you value yourself.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

What I value is the naked contact of a mind.

To be is to be the value of a variable.

[B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually...

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The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what ha...

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The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what ha...

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You can get anything you want in this life if you help enough other people get what they want.

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your va...

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