Value Quotes
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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 everything at face value.
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Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should... come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.
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To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.
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There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.
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In the summer of 2009, I modestly predicted that most major news organisations would be charging for content within 12 months. Charging, I argued, would not only plug the revenue gap; it would also help to re-establish value in their news product.
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We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.
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I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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He who does not value life does not deserve it.
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Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.
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The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society that produces these kinds of bombastic performances that don't have any value or musical meaning, is very conspicuous, look at me, I'm rich, dig my brand. That's what missing, Bob Dylan made us feel worthy, I try to do the same thing. Respect for the audience with music that is meaningful and soulful. Go for what moves you and not necessarily what you think will be commercial.
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I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.
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Business models and value propositions expire like a yogurt in the fridge.
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I really value my anonymity and privacy.
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If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
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As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the G.I. Bill led me to attend college and law school and allowed me the opportunity to serve in Congress.
Charles B. Rangel -
The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.
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Great work, professional relationships, and learning experiences compound over time, much the way money does - investing $100 today creates much more value than investing $100 a decade from now.
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... I feel the American public would be in a better position to exercise freedom of dietary choice if it were stated in bold print on the Goals and Food Selection pages that the value of dietary change remains controversial and that science cannot at this time insure that an altered diet will provide improved protection from certain killer diseases such as heart disease and cancer.
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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
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If you think about any multiparty process where shared information is necessary to the completion of transactions, and the coordination of activity and the exchange of value, that's where blockchain technology can be put to good use.
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I think of entrepreneurship as a way of creating value.
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Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.
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Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great value, I think.
