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The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now… — Florence King
Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render… — Rosika Schwimmer
Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol… — Theodore Parker
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what… — Octavio Paz
By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing… — Octavio Paz
Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an… — Arianna Huffington
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in… — Roger Angell
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes… — Douglas Coupland
Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable. — Milton Sapirstein
In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious… — Guy Finley
Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action. — Wang Yangming
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to… — Alvar Aalto
One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will. — Armand Hammer
If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless. — Anwar Sadat
I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically… — Anwar Sadat
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It will… — Leopold Sedar Senghor
As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of… — Mark Leyner

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