Value Quotes
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Matt Mullenweg -
Most European countries fund their low corporate taxes with some form of a value-added tax, on consumption rather than income.
James B. Stewart
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It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value
George Nakashima -
The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
Thomas Hobbes -
Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time.
Ernest Dion Wilson -
Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By “they” I mean the people who cannot understand that rain is a festival, who do not appreciate its gratuity, who think that what has no price has no value, that what cannot be sold is not real, so that the only way to make something actual is to place it on the market. The time will come when they will sell you even your rain. At the moment it is still free, and I am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness.
Ellen Meloy -
While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy -
We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.
Ernst Mayr -
If you start from the farm sector, we need much better investments and capital creation on land. We need logistics support; we need cold chain and processing capability. We need proper pricing at various stages to ensure that the producers are not left out in the value-chain.
Arundhati Bhattacharya -
Immigrants play a huge role in the founding and value creation of today's tech companies. We wonder how much more value could be created if it were easier to get a work visa.
Aileen Lee -
On the value of blind shots to golf course design.
Alastair Mackenzie -
I'm a guy that can play three downs. You don't have to take me off the field. I value blocking.
Ezekiel Elliott -
Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way.
Amy Klobuchar
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Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?
Andy Couturier -
The value that the generic drug industry brings to the U.S. healthcare system is indisputable.
Heather Bresch -
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us.
Charles Caleb Colton -
I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.
Zephyr Teachout -
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
Bernard Berenson -
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.
Eda LeShan
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That's what you strive for - you strive to take your move to the next level. It's about shock value, always shock value, but keeping it flavor and stylized and making it yours.
Crazy Legs -
Inevitably, most readers come to John Cheever's 'Journals' via his fiction. Whatever value they might have in their own right, their viability as a publishing proposition was conditional on the interest of the large readership of his novels and stories.
Geoff Dyer -
Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.
Napoleon Hill -
People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
Alveda King