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“We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.”

“If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking.”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“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.”

“In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.”

Real Values Loss Grief Objects Bears Fancy Proportion Real Value

Book:The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads

Source: The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads

“It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.”

Humans Two Character Values Natural Creation Bears Architecture Impression Human Power

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the protection it affords against foreign power, the virtue it inculcates, the just emulation of the distinction it confers on nations foremost in it; in short, its identification with power, morals, order and happiness (which merits to it premiums of encouragement rather than repressive taxes), are considerations [that should] always [be] present and [bear] with their just weight.”

Source: Public and private papers

“I could easily believe that religion could enhance health and hence survival, and that therefore there could be indeed be literally Darwinian survival value, Darwinian selection in favor of religion. None of that of course bears at all upon the truth value of the claims made by religions.”

Believe Made Values Courses Bears Survival Claims Favors Selection

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.”

Needs Mind Littles Age Desire Values Bears Six Capacity Relation

Author:Marya Mannes