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“The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.”

Used Purpose Values Cases Materials Plant Determined Experiments Utility

Book:Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence

Source: Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence

“Your true value is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.”

Giving Values Leadership Conscience Determined Payment Giver True Value

Book:The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

Source: The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

“Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life.”

Way Looks Purpose Values Development Balance Morality Ethics Missions Determined Purpose Of Life Sensitivity

Author:Luci Swindoll

“[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.”

Giving Should Self Government Values Liberty Rights Giving Up Safety Unions Determined Sovereignty Self-government

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.”

Made Values Individual Determined

Author:Cornel West

“COMMITMENT is the first step to every good thing I know, and the only step that matters when it comes to achievement. It inspires and attracts people, shows them you have conviction and goals, that you are focused and determined. And the commitment that is based on values will endure. Any time you make choices based on solid life values, you are in a better position to sustain your level of commitment, because you don't have to continually re-evaluate its importance.”

“The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.”

Heart Kind Values Cases Impossible Demand Evidence Determined Proof Convince Skepticism Agnosticism Doubters Persuading Apologetic

Author:Edward John Carnell

“The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or value or ruled by deity or Providence; whether the will were in fact free or determined; whether there were or were not a future life, or any even fugitive rewards and punishments at all.”

Facts Would Be Values Universe Moral Struggle Issues Rewards Determined Punishment Providence Deities Fugitive Future Life Moral Issues Reward And Punishment

Book:Classics Revisited

Source: Classics Revisited

“Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.”

Has Beens States Philosophy Values Position Importance Remains Determined Priorities Primaries Substance Realms Superiority Emphasis Estimating

Author:Manly Hall

“Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone to African development and the key to local value creation in Africa. I am determined to ensure that Africa's next generation of entrepreneurs have the platform they need to turn their entrepreneurial aspirations into sustainable businesses that will drive economic growth and job creation across Africa.”

“The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.”

People Values Pieces Written Moon Paper Determined Swallowing

Book:Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

“What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.”

Believe Values All Things Weight Determined

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“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.”

Thinking World Needs Mean Past Moving Values Order Born Lines Environment Shapes Independence Determined Meaningful Arrangements Autonomy Defining Moving Out

Author:Gerda Lerner

“Men generally pay for all expenses on a date ... either sex, however, may bring a little gift, its value to be determined by the bizarrness of the sexual request to be made later that evening.”

Men May Littles Made Values Sex Pay Dating Determined Evening Expenses Request

Book:Modern manners

Source: Modern manners