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“When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.”

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Author:Dian Fossey

“As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.”

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Author:Mark Leyner

“You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.”

Giving Looks Important Ends Values Flow Gold The End Of The Day Cash Dividends Intrinsic Value Cash Flow And At The End Of The Day

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.”

Values Military Usefulness Trophies

Author:Lord Mountbatten

“I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.”

Kind Values Bed Boring Get Up My Time Up Early Time Off Time Away

Author:Mandy Moore

“By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.”

Source: Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics

“The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.”

Stills America Past Values Program Determination Responsible Formulas Past Success

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“I think the thing that I admire about Rick Santorum is that he hasn't backed down or apologized one bit for his personal religious views, for standing up for social conservative values.”

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Author:Michelle Malkin

“I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.”

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Author:Peter MacKay

“We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.”

Children Play Mother Values Asks Nations Roles Building Duty Integrity Drama Equal Commitment India Constitution Complexes Loyalty Nation Building

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.”

Thinking Humans Ideas Values Given Walking Activity Communicate Architecture Aesthetic Rooted Human Activity Added Value

Author:Thom Mayne

“Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.”

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Author:Thomas E. Mann

“I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.”

Kids Wanted Values Proud Be Proud

Author:Tim McGraw

“Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.”

Values Safety Lists

Author:David Neeleman

“The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.”

Art Values Accepted California Art Education

Author:Gavin Newsom

“RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.”

Way Believe Values Turns Challenges Audience Figures Possibility Inspire Willing Unique Compelling Inspire Others Possibility Of Change

Author:Frances O'Grady

“In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.”

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Author:Sandra Oh

“This is Romney's biggest political weakness. His policy flip-flops and the general sense that he's not comfortable in his own skin leads voters, including many supporters, wondering about his core values.”

Political Values Wonder Policy Comfortable Weakness Skins Including Core Voters Supporter Romney Flip Core Values Flip Flops

Author:Ron Fournier

“Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.”

“It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is within the family that they form their earliest relationships, learn to communicate with others and interact with the world around them. It is within the family that the notion of human rights becomes a reality lived on a daily basis. If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“Nourishing spirituality means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought together. It means overwhelming deadness and stagnation and living reality in terms of values, inspiration, and symbols of higher meaning.”

Mean Reality Inspiration Together Values Spirituality Term Space Higher All Things Bases Symbols Overwhelming Inward Stagnation Cultivating Spiritual Values Living Reality

Author:Leonardo Boff

“The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.”

Today Values Politics Poverty Trouble

Author:Dan Quayle

“Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one where they would not only be admitted, but would govern as well. The would create its values and myths, its traditions and archetypes.”

Wells Country Values Speak Study Tradition Jew Myth Screens Empires Archetype

Author:Neal Gabler

“Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done.”

Done Values Belief Causes Aspect Roots Hatred Universal Threat Jew Core Perceive Lasting Irrational Judaism Allegiance Representing Inexplicable Core Values Root Cause

Author:Dennis Prager

“Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.”

Two Past Values Decades Ethical Over The Past Erosion Ethical Values Soil Erosion

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.”

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Author:Amanda Plummer

“I've enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs to Wembley or, as director of football, pinpointing players such as Jermain Defoe, Paul Robinson and Robbie Keane with real sell-on value.”

Real Values Games Player Football Directors Sells Flight Enjoyed My Time Spurs

Author:David Pleat

“We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.”

People Needs Values Nations Goal

Author:Kamla Persad-Bissessar

“I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!”

Trying Self Together Values Pieces Taught Passages Guitarist Self Taught

Author:Sam Palladio

“I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.”

Ends Values Results Authority Scared Telling The Truth Assets Diminish End Results

Author:Susan Powter

“When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.”

Country Values Issues Gold Paid Notes Checks Goods Commodity Certificates Purchasers

Book:Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

“I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.”

Has Beens Values Given Taken Greater Possibility Giving Up Optimistic Not Giving Up

Author:Michael J. Fox

“From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.”

Values Church Steps Generations

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.”

Real Shows Reality Wanted Values Drama Focused Bunch Fake Bulls Family Values Reality Shows Something Real

Author:Bill Rancic

“A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.”

“The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.”

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Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.”

World Film Values Games Names All Things Green Colour Spectrum Columns Jake

Author:Guy Ritchie

“But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.”

Knows Years May States Happens Values Greater Four College Educational Range Four Years Admission

Author:Roy Romer

“One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.”

Thinking Years Values Courses Difficult Quality Struggle Impossible Judging Educational

Author:Roy Romer

“I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality...”

Thinking Men Way Values Century Fashion Personality Men And Women 21st Century Affordable

Author:Stuart Rose

“The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.”

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Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, "Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons," and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value.”

People Ifs Said Character Film Values Plans Yeah Factors Recognition Organized They Said Yogi Great Film Scooby Doo Flintstones

Author:Fred Seibert

“Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.”

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Author:Garth Stein

“You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.”

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Author:Amity Shlaes

“I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.”

Values Wealth Deals South Productions Bridges Australia Machinery Transport Port South Australia

Book:Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)

Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)

“A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.”

May Two Values Three Five Pieces Minors Fractions Pawns

Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

“We need a president who understands the contributions and values of rural America, a president who understands the men and women who are up at 5 a.m. every day to grow the food that we put on our tables.”

Men Needs America Values Grows President He Man Men And Women Tables Contribution Rural America

Author:John Salazar

“I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?”

People Thinking Knows Way Film Values Humanity Hollywood Structure Productions Charm Immense Distracted Hardware Bollywood Hollywood Films

Author:Julian Sands

“I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.”

Ifs Knows Way Believe Stills Sometimes Character Values Asks Moral Opinion Struggle Issues Media Responsible Don't Believe Censorship

Author:Katey Sagal