Value Quotes

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The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money… — Dick Butkus
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is… — Paul Scofield
The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them. — George Orwell
God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly… — Thomas Jefferson
Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can… — Thomas Jefferson
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a… — Thomas Jefferson
The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket,… — Arthur C. Clarke
The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics. — Margaret Sanger
Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the… — John Dewey
There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which… — Charles de Gaulle
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use… — Chinua Achebe
But everything of value about me is in my books. — V.S. Naipaul
Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy. — Viktor E. Frankl
Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis… — David Shields
If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common… — Herbert Marcuse
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. — Jean de La Fontaine
We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . .… — Ronald Reagan
I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what… — Paul Ryan
It's very much to do with how I'm feeling ... I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put them together to… — Bat for Lashes
The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms. — Piet Mondrian

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