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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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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and ...

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The value is in the worth, not in the number.

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AesopAesop's Fables

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our...

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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

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Alain de BottonThe Architecture of Happiness

[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Jap...

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Alain de BottonThe Architecture of Happiness

I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of ca...

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You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...

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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through in...

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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are ...

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Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives the

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Alexander PopeThe Prose Works of Alexander Pope

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the ...

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Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

I have no other possessions of value but my soul.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we ...

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Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just...

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon me...

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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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AristotleSelected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so yo...

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Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose al...

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If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive in...

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Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and th...

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Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start t...

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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be ...

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When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, ...

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There's something I would like to understand. And I don't think anyone can explain it. . . There's y...

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...there’s nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. W...

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There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another—if me...

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Keating felt naked...People were his protection against people. Roark had no sense of people. Others...

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Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: n...

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Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamenta...

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I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage - they l...

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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor...

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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin ...

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We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

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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