Values Quotes
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Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
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Bacon is clearly a food made by the Nazis to fatten up Americans. It has no nutritional value, is full of fat, sodium, and nitrates, and is a pathetic type of consumable made from the noblest of creatures.
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Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.
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It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.
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I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.
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You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.
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In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.
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[On his father] He was a man of another age, really, holding a set of values that differed in essence from those that most men hold today. The son of a pioneer settler, he grew up believing along with most of the men of his world that a man’s physical strength was his measure.
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The problem of the 1850s-how (for Southerners) to preserve slavery without destroying the Union-was a practical problem specific to a particular time and place. But the moral problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is a timeless one that, sooner or later, confronts us all.
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My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.
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Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.
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Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.
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I used to wonder if running a large industrial company would really square with my values.
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I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away
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Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.
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The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.
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My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.
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Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities.
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Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement of the whole. Don't have more than one movement in a figure; you can't patch parts together. Simple lines; then simple values. Establish the fact of the whole. Is it square, oblong, cube, or what is it?
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The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.
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For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton and Ted Allen making especially full efforts to understand whiteness in order to disillusion whites unable to see past the value of their own skins.
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If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.
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The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.
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I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.
