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For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect… — Martin Amis
In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and the search for… — Mark Kurlansky
Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. — Molly Ivins
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's… — William James
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values. — Lawrence Durrell
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing. — Betty Smith
You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not give me no… — Ayn Rand
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn… — Ayn Rand
God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book… — Corrie Ten Boom
You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by… — Haruki Murakami
Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest… — Terry Goodkind
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a… — Hermann Hesse
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries… — Sidney Poitier
One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are… — Sigmund Freud
Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling â€œtraditionsâ€; litanies to family values are… — Susan Sontag
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place… — Bell Hooks
There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be… — John C. Maxwell
It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to… — John Stuart Mill

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