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“The value of dreams, like ... divinations, is not that they give a specific answer, but that they open up new areas of psychic reality, shake us out of our customary ruts, and throw light on a new segment of our lives. Thus the sayings of the shrine, like dreams, were not to be received passively; the recipients had to "live" themselves into the message.”

Giving Dream Reality Light Values Answers Our Lives Messages Areas Shakes Psychics Ruts Shrines

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.”

Values Judgment Claims Proportion Irrelevant Unqualified Intrinsic Value Inverse

Book:Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg

Source: Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg

“When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to his friends. They would laugh and laugh. I realize now the laugh was pure shock value, but it felt really good, and I've been chasing it ever since.”

Would Be Values Three Felt Realizing Teach Laughing Comedy Dad Pure My Dad Shock Swear Chasing Swear Word Shock Value

Author:Sarah Silverman

“The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos the "intellectual sacrifice" is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this is so is shown by the fact that in spite of (or rather in consequence) of theology (which unveils it) the tension between the value-spheres of "science" and the sphere of "the holy" is unbridgeable.”

Men Facts Values Religious Sacrifice Holy Intellectual Consequence Capacity Theology Accomplishment Tension Characteristics Spite Spheres Positively

Book:From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

“Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith .”

Matter Values Belief Judging Judgment Meaningful Assumption Validity

Book:On the Methodology of the Social Sciences

Source: On the Methodology of the Social Sciences

“The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.”

Soul Values Aliens Bent Rationality Status Quo Salesmanship

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, "A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it." People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.”

People Heart Said Use Values Father Capitalism Asking Notes Lovely Socialism Superiors Golden Communism Relative Jesuit Relative Value

Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.”

Needs Mind Character Values Order Clear Eternal Appreciate Atonement Energetic Exalted

Author:Ellen G. White

“Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.”

Values Common Identity Crisis Males Liberation Fulfillment Mutual Promoting Mutual Respect Identity Crisis Midlife Midlife Crisis Love Respect Personal Fulfillment

Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.”

Values Boring Mathematician Perl

Author:Larry Wall

“The critique of the highest values hitherto does not simply refute them or declare them invalid. It is rather a matter of displaying their origins as impositions which must affirm precisely what ought to be negated by the values established.”

Doe Matter Values Ought Highest Critique Imposition

Book:Nietzsche: The will to power as art

Source: Nietzsche: The will to power as art

“When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then we must ask ourselves unflinchingly what is the cause of high unemployment. Quite simply and unequivocally, it is caused by paying ourselves more than the value of what we produce. There are no scapegoats.”

Values Asks Causes Economic Produce Instruments Rejects Remedy Superficial Unemployment Scapegoat

Book:Time and chance

Source: Time and chance

“Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?”

Together Values House Term Company Economic Standards Stealing Forests Block Analysis Greek Temples Isolated Thieves Precise Joints Marble Copper Timber Wiring Assessing Vandals

Author:Stewart Brand

“Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes.”

Men World Has Beens States Values Church Century Profound Brilliant Our Time Jewels Outlook Guarded Celibacy

Author:Pope Paul VI

“Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.”

People Men Heart Mean Doe Light Law Values Loss Greater Security Property Punishment Insecure Capital Punishment

Author:Elizabeth Fry

“Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.”

Humans Values Term Saws Labor Rewards Our Society Exploitation

Book:The Greening of America

Source: The Greening of America

“Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.”

Shows Values Choices Machines Guides Domination Our Choices

Book:The Greening of America

Source: The Greening of America

“Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.”

Moments Values Lost Views Forever Influence Judging Labour Articles Commerce Utility Bygones

Author:William Stanley Jevons

“These American values, this great moral heritage, is shared and lived in my religion as it is in yours. I was taught in my home to honor God and love my neighbor. I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.”

Home Values Father Moral Saws Taught Kings Honor And Love Neighbor March Heritage Luther American Values God And Love

Author:Mitt Romney

“I know my comfort zone and I know what my strong points are and my first love was always music. I'm a huge cinema fan. I was taking my time; I got offered a lot of scripts and things along the way but until Burlesque showed up at my doorstep, it really spoke to me. I have a collection of burlesque books at home that I've had for years. I've always been intrigued and fascinated with the topic, the beauty and the art of it and the comedic value of it. I think it's just a beautiful, empowering thing for women.”

“The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite limit no matter how small, or greater than any finite limit no matter how great.”

Mean Matter Values Greater Limits Infinite Assuming Quantity Finite Variables

Author:Georg Cantor

“I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one... In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money... the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it.”

Giving Writing Trying May Book Stories Bigs Reality Values Reading Goal Novel Five Four Return Illusion Size Short Story

Author:James Clavell

“Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.”

People Different Government Together Form Values Community Harmony Working Together Diverse Different Peoples Forms Of Government Federalism

Book:My Years as Prime Minister

Source: My Years as Prime Minister

“In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.”

“This is where each individual must decide for himself. The essential thing is the decision to challenge the modern state, which without this small group of protesters will be checked by neither brake, value, nor reason.”

States Reason Values Individual Challenges Decision Groups Modern Essentials Small Groups Brake

Author:Jacques Ellul

“We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Love Giving Doe Earth Values Love Is Our Lives Goes On Importance Stronger What You Want Graves Endless Love Death

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers you dislike as well as writers you like. Read their stuff to figure out what's wrong. Find a balance between the confidence that allows you continue, and the self-critical facility that enables you to improve. Get the balance wrong on either side, and you're screwed.”

People Writing Wells Self Shows Values Stuff Sides Opinion Figures Balance Response Critical Dislike Facility

Author:Alex Garland

“The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.”

Past Values Gold Uncertain Commodity Utility Monetary Ambiguous Intrinsic Value

Author:Benjamin Graham

“All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder's major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements.”

“The purchase of a bargain issue presupposes that the market's current appraisal is wrong, or at least that the buyer's idea of value is more likely to be right than the market's. In this process the investor sets his judgement against that of the market. To some this may seem arrogant or foolhardy.”

May Ideas Seems Values Process Issues Currents Judgement Investors Arrogant Bargains Buyers Appraisal Foolhardy

Author:Benjamin Graham

“The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor's own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.”

Ifs Values Asks Answers Attitude Security Depends Valuable Investors Analysts Right Questions

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected.”

“The investor has the benefit of the stock market's daily and changing appraisal of his holdings, 'for whatever that appraisal may be worth', and, second, that the investor is able to increase or decrease his investment at the market's daily figure - 'if he chooses'. Thus the existence of a quoted market gives the investor certain options which he does not have if his security is unquoted. But it does not impose the current quotation on an investor who prefers to take his idea of value from some other source.”

Ifs Giving May Doe Ideas Able Certain Values Existence Security Figures Source Benefits Increase Investment Currents Investors Quotations Decrease Appraisal

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.”

Should Values Liberty Grateful Threat Be Grateful Threatened Highlights Nadir

Author:David Gemmell

“If men and women were equal, everybody would have the same values.Because at this point in time, many women feel compelled to care for the children, feel empathetically into another person's reality, more so than many men who often are on more of a straight-shooting path towards achievement come what may.”

Ifs Men Feels May Children Persons Reality Care Values Path Equal Achievement Men And Women Shooting Compelled

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men are bad, women are good, let's get women empowered" - it's let's get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it.”

Thinking Men Feels Values Feminism Protect Capacity Empowered Empowering Women Empowered Women Value Systems Bad Woman

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.”

World Giving Real Values Language Process Feminism Influence Empowering Real Work Value Systems

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.”

Thinking Doe Would Be Values Language Decision Technology One Thing Bases Method Dependent Decision Making Excluded Good Place High Technology

Author:Ann Druyan

“The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise, we might as well start packing and moving back into the cave right now, because that's where we'll end up.”

Wells Ends Whole Might Moving Values Century Right Now Importance 21st Century Caves Packing Moving Back

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people think that the book was good value for money, you have achieved something, because if you haven't achieved those things you're not going to achieve the other thing.”

People Ifs Thinking Two Book Ends Values Turns Achieve Havens Pages Good Values

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I promise you, if you reach that point where you are not afraid to figure out who you are, what you want and what your values are, you will not fear that anymore. You will not do it, you will be smarter.”

Ifs Want Values Figures Promise Who You Are What You Want Where You Are Not Afraid Smarter I Promise

Author:Christi Paul

“We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.”

Needs Values Lines Principles Economic Policy Bottom Humanitarian Bottom Line Worldview Economic Value

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we create a strong and growing economy to preserve the legacy of opportunity for the next generation by balancing our budget in a way that protects our values and ensuring that every family will be able to own and protect the value of their most important asset, their home.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“We cannot become the world's policeman, but where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must act and we must lead. That is our job and we are better, stronger and safer because we are doing it.”

World Jobs Values Interest Differences Stronger Making A Difference Stakes Policemen

Author:William J. Clinton

“If you believe in the values of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, if you're willing to work hard and play by the rules, you are part of our family. And we're proud to be with you.”

Ifs Believe Hard Play Values Rights Willing Hard Work Proud Constitution Independence Bills Our Family Declaration If You Believe Declaration Of Independence Bill Of Rights

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have.”

Thinking Want Believe Values I Believe President Want U Select

Author:Max Lucado

“When you look back at the fight against Communism, one thing that is striking is the degree to which we [the United States] were carried on by our own values. One of the real challenges of the new era is going to be to maintain those values and not adopt those of our adversaries.”

Looks Real States Values Fighting Challenges United United States One Thing Degrees Communism Eras Adversaries New Era

Author:David E. Hoffman

“I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.”

Thinking Has Beens Values Tradition American Values Guantanamo

Author:Mark Shields

“If you were to ask me whether you need a dictatorship to run India, No, you do not. Whether you need a powerful person who believes in concentrating power, No, you do not. If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.”

Ifs Needs Believe Persons Running Values Asks Wealth Powerful Doubt Fame India Democratic Prosperity Ask Me Dictatorship Concentrating Powerful Person Democratic Values

Author:Narendra Modi

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