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Values Quotes by William Deresiewicz
- There's no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in the people you know, than…
- Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These,…
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- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is… — Ezra Taft Benson
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov