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“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.”

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Author:Anatole France

“That I was born to this circle - I am blessed. That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.”

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Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?”

Ideas Values Black Born Taught Excellence Segregation

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.”

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Author:Daniel Yankelovich

“The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration. You have to drink the tea with 100 percent of your concentration.”

Life Is Joy Values Born Depends Drink Percent Cups Tea Concentration Joy Of Life Cups Of Tea

Book:You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

Source: You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

“The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition.”

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Author:Ben Shahn

“Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.”

Want Hands Values Born Progress New Work

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and value, spreading love wherever we went, letting our light shine. If we did not learn self-love in our youth, there is still hope. The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born - waiting to see the light.”

“The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.”

“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

“The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.' In our ignorance of the values that form part of our history and heritage, we Americans have become perpetual children.”

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Author:Ilana Mercer

“The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.”

Source: A Woman's Worth

“When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. What he hungers for is definitely going to be affected by what he got or didn't get in those years when he was forming his psyche and his values. So I think villains are made.”

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Author:Ron Perlman

“Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that made us a great nation to begin with. We've all seen those values in action, through the service and sacrifice of more than 35,000 foreign-born men and women currently on active duty in the United States military.”

“Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one's future.”

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Author:Gerda Lerner

“The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for begetting children and protecting them while they are dependent. It is a cultural group because it brings into intimate association persons of different age and sex who renew and reshape the folkways of the society into which they are born. The household serves as a "cultural workshop" for the transmission of old traditions and for the creation of new social values.”