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“As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.”

Values Speak Loss Rights Dialogue Womens Rights Inheritance Speaks Out

Author:Zainab Salbi

“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

“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 mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not entirely good. Our gain was also a loss... There was great value in something well observed and carefully delineated. If the head and heart were often absent, there was something to be said for the presence of a hand.”

Ifs Wells Heart Art Said Hands Values Loss Revolution Concepts Gains Vocabulary Absent Contemporary Art New Words Head And Heart Great Value Commercial Art

Author:R. O. Blechman

“In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.”

Values Loss Risk Gains Strive Investors Contrast Rapids Preoccupation Aversion Speculators Risk Aversion

Author:Seth Klarman

“Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all our centuries, the sea has ruled our destiny. There will always be other ships and men to sail in them. It is these men, in peace or war, to whom we owe so much. Above all victories, beyond all loss, in spite of changing values in a changing world, they give to us, their countrymen, eternal and indomitable pride.”

Source: The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times

“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.”

Country Government Running Form Values Evil Sides Born Loss Safe Reasonable Good And Evil Submit Compounds Forms Of Government Partiality

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.”

Heart Values Heaven Loss Break Tears Sorrow Safety Grieving Flood

Book:Heaven: A Place--a City--a Home

Source: Heaven: A Place--a City--a Home

“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

“The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.”

“A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons.”

Source: The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

“The Internet, too, has strong attributes of a public good, and has undermined the “private good” attributes of old media. Internet service providers obviously can exclude people, but the actual content -the values, the ideas- can be shared with no loss of value for the consumer. It is also extremely inexpensive and easy to share material. Sharing is built into the culture and practices of the Web and has made it difficult for the subscription model to be effective.”

“Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.”

“I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.”

Book Values Loss Atheism Productions Positive Atheism Expensive Reconcile Breathtaking

Author:Richard Dawkins

“The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power.”

Suffering Values Social Loss Special Genius Terrible Drama Universal Tragedy Pressure Feminine Exceptional Restriction Identical Social Pressure Special Gifts

Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture

Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture