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“The value of assets often increases exponentially while the value of your labor only increases incrementally.”

“The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.”

Values Violence Cost Increase Dear Stakes Discouraging Fundamentalist Persecuted Desertion

Author:Pascal Boyer

“Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.”

“An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.”

Mean Values Products Increase Productivity Labour

Book:Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

“The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption that it has an existence independent of anyone's awareness of it. When it comes along, it always has, at first, a low value. Then, depending on the value-looseness of the observer and the potential quality of the fact, its value increases, either slowly or rapidly, or the value wanes and the fact disappears.”

Firsts Facts Values Existence Quality Wonderful Awareness Birth Lows Discovery Increase Independent Disappear Wonderful Things Observers Presumption Looseness

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.”

Values Increase Isolated Maximum Equilibrium Entropy

Author:Rudolf Clausius

“Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides of the coin. Applying a tax to land values also means removing other taxes. This would so improve the efficiency of a city that land values would go up more than the increase in taxes on land.”

Looks Mean Values Sides Cities Land Effects Ought Taxes Increase Efficiency Both Sides Economist Coins Adverse Side Effects

Author:William Vickrey

“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 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

“To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.”

Values Amount Taxes Increase Raises Commodity Value Of Money

Book:The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

Source: The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

“Studies of reconciliation in primates have demonstrated that if the relationship value increases between two parties they are more willing to make peace.”

Ifs Two Values Party Study Willing Increase Reconciliation Making Peace Primates

Author:Frans de Waal

“Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and that consequently the prices of all commodities will not cease to rise, everybody becomes eager to buy as much as possible and restrict his cash holdings to minimum size... If the credit expansion is not stopped in time, the boom turns to crack-up boom: the flight into real values begins, and the whole monetary system founders.”

“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.”

“In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.”

Doe Lying Values Power Increase Objectives Organized Quantum

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.”

Wells Country States Values Building Materials Degrees Increase Woods Architecture Improvement Permanent Acquisition Ornaments Edifice

Book:Notes on the State of Virginia

Source: Notes on the State of Virginia

“But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.”

Persons Values Humanity Consciousness Moral Knowledge Creative Achievement Increase Determine Practicals Usefulness Moral Values

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.”

Mind Feelings Faces Values Force Creativity Creative Greatness Elements Increase Remains Extraordinary Superiors

Author:Stefan Zweig

“However the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests for a sequence of consecutive values n=2,3,.. up to, say, n=100. If the result of at least one test were negative, the hypothesis would prove to be false; otherwise our confidence in the hypothesis would increase, and we should feel encouraged to attempt establishing the hypothesis, instead of trying to construct a counterexample.”

Ifs Feels Should Trying Science Values Results Special Prove Negative Tests Machines Increase Mathematics Permit Constructs Hypothesis Sequence Consecutive

Author:Alfred Tarski

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