Value Quotes

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast. — Nicole Kidman
Every successful business (1) creates or provides something of value that (2) other people want or need (3) at a price they're willing to pay,… — Josh Kaufman
In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more… — Bob Hawke
An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of… — Denis Hayes
If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the… — Peter R. Orszag
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and… — Lord Chesterfield
Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it.… — Swami Vivekananda
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did… — Primo Levi
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. — Arnold Bennett
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. — Neal Cassady
In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives… — Bertrand Russell
Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our… — Thomas Jefferson
Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see… — Ralph Nader
In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which… — Jimmy Carter
How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals,… — Dave Ramsey
It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention. — Janet Napolitano
As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has been destroyed. Our… — Horatio Bottomley
The more we increase the active participation and partnership with young people, the better we serve them. ... And the more comprehensively we work with… — Maria del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu y Franco
We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see… — Elise M. Boulding

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