Value Quotes

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Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity… — E. M. Forster
I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value. — Ela Bhatt
The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we are witting participants… — Nathan Lewis
Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to… — Scott Perkins
Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature,… — Gregory Bateson
Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of… — Ludwig von Mises
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of… — Ludwig von Mises
The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value… — Helen Hunt Jackson
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to… — Richard Hofstadter
Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational capabilities, which they… — Judy Chu
Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure… — Paul Samuelson
The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice,… — Robert Solow
What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that… — Edward Albee
As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we… — Stephen Jay Gould
Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have… — Nikola Tesla
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not… — Christopher Dawson
Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the… — E F Schumacher
As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect, if he values… — Pope Leo XIII
I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone. — Marvin Harris

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