Value Quotes
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Our philosophy at 8VC is that many of the companies that present the greatest economic opportunities also create the greatest value for society.
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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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Researchers may like to think that, given all the facts, we make rational choices. Ask economists how that assumption works out for them. No, we are emotional creatures who use value-based reasoning in conjunction with our rationality.
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Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
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The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word.
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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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There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.
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Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.
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If it were easy, it would have no value.
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A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.
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My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.
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It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.
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In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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Personal religion has a supreme value for its own sake, not merely as a feeder of social morality, but as the highest unfolding of life itself, as the blossoming of our spiritual nature. Spiritual regeneration is the most important fact in any life history. A living experience of God is the crowning knowledge attainable to a human mind.
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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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We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series.
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Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly.
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Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.
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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
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XRP is a digital asset that exists on the XRP ledger, one of the open-source products created by Ripple. XRP is a pivotal component of the Internet of Value, since it solves a key point of friction: the pre-funding of nostro/vostro accounts necessary to facilitate cross border payments.
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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
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Consumers learn the value of being sure that what you want to buy is what you buy.
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Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.
