Quotes: value
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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist
1917-2008
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
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The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
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Thomas Paine
English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor
1737-1809
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
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