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“Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.”

Two Past Values Decades Ethical Over The Past Erosion Ethical Values Soil Erosion

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.”

May Two Values Three Five Pieces Minors Fractions Pawns

Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

“Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.”

Two Values Given Objects Relation Quantity Precise

Book:An Outline of the Science of Political Economy

Source: An Outline of the Science of Political Economy

“Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.”

May Two Values Culture Results Practice Influence Example Habit Exercise Patterns Desirable Undesirable Two Cultures

Author:Shelley E. Taylor

“Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.”

People Love Life Two Values Love Is Personality Sane Considering

Book:The Sane Society

Source: The Sane Society

“As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.”

Thinking Way Humans Two Political Values Human Beings Behinds Millions Clear Youth Election Campaigns Meaningful Core Barack Who We Are Political Campaign Hope And Change

Author:Adam Braun

“We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.”

Doe Two Reason Problem Lying Values Quality Return Function Absolutes Treatment Superstitions Balanced Arbitrary Positively Critique Obsessive Two Options

Author:John Ralston Saul

“I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And this right hemispheric denigration would manifest in two principal ways: Women's rights would be taken away, and images would be declared abominations.”

Way Two Would Be Values Culture Left Language Taken Rights Manifest Principal Womens Rights Alphabet Adopting Reception Abomination

Author:Leonard Shlain

“I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust - a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.”

Looks I Can Two Values Opinion Emotional Periods Authority Elements Weight Foundation Classic Colour Intensity Distrust Revolt Extravagance

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men.”

Men Two Values Enjoy Women Sides Natural Sin Steps Roles Source Sexuality Temptation Coins Men Women Two Sides Pedestal Playboy

Author:Hugh Hefner

“The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people think that the book was good value for money, you have achieved something, because if you haven't achieved those things you're not going to achieve the other thing.”

People Ifs Thinking Two Book Ends Values Turns Achieve Havens Pages Good Values

Author:Terry Pratchett

“If I have to describe the India-US relationship in a single word, I will say we are natural allies. I think the relationship between India and US, and the two countries in themselves, have played an enormously important role and continue to play an important role in strengthening democratic values all over the world.”

Ifs Thinking World Two Important Country Play Values Natural Roles India Democratic Allies Strengthening Single Word Two Countries Democratic Values

Author:Narendra Modi

“If you look at the India-US relationship for example, the role that the Indian diaspora has played in the relationship is extremely crucial. Yes, we share democratic values but there is also the great role that the Indian diaspora has played in strengthening the bond of friendship between India and the US, and of course in underscoring the democratic values between the two countries.”

Ifs Looks Two Country Values Courses Roles Share Example India Democratic Indian Crucial Strengthening Diaspora Two Countries Bonds Of Friendship Democratic Values

Author:Narendra Modi

“Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.”

Two Values Source Labour Quantity Commodity Utility Possessing Scarcity

Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

“Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims to the contrary, the essential ideology of Neo-Conservatism is to preserve the status quo, with all of its injustices. Its public relations experts call for "freedom and democracy" without a framework of higher values. They fail to comprehend the need for a paradigm of justice and therefore are blind to what concerns most of the people in the world. This failure is the taproot of terrorism.”

“Yes, I direct commercials as well. I get these really weird offers and then I have to bid on them and win the job. One offer that I have now, and I've already done this last year for the same company, is for Cash Value Cheese, this cheese out in the midwest. I did two spots for them last year and I'm going to probably do three this year. I also did some for the Utah Transit Authority, which was weird and interesting and they turned out really funny - they actually won an award.”

Years Wells Two Done Jobs Lasts Values Three Winning Interesting Company Offers Authority Direct Spots Awards Cash Last Year Cheese Midwest Really Weird Utah

Author:Andy Dick

“One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.”

World Two Wisdom Faces Values Politics Economy Four Mankind Six Scales Rhythm Liberalism Torn Vibrations Disparity Torn Apart

Book:The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Source: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

“I am like all other atheists only in that I do not believe there are any gods. Beyond that, I may differ dramatically in my values and beliefs from any other atheist. On both sides of the political spectrum, one can find the neo-conservative Objectivists and the ultra-liberal Communists, both of whom hate each other. These two factions take up nearly opposite sets of values, yet both are comprised of unabashed atheists.”

Believe May Two Political Values Hate Belief Sides Atheism Opposites Atheist Conservative Communist Both Sides Spectrum Factions Ultras Political Spectrum

Author:Richard Carrier

“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

“The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.”

Needs Two Stories Values Memories Company Subjects Ought Exhausted Repetition Defects Good Memories

Author:Jonathan Swift

“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

“Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.”

Two Values Persecution Clash Value Systems

Book:The Beatitudes: Developing Spiritual Character

Source: The Beatitudes: Developing Spiritual Character

“After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?”

World Years May Has Beens Two Philosophy Values Pleasure Genius Thousand Fame Doctrine Sensuality Chiefs Thousand Years Reproach Duration Calumny

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“for every person who's stepped out of line and lived to regret it, there are two people who stayed in line because they got their values mixed and lost their nerve, and who have lived to regret it still more. You don't hear about those people because they're still in line where they don't show.”

People Persons Stills Two Shows Values Lost Lines Risk Regret Nerves

Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“We go into a relationship looking for love, not realizing that we must bring love with us. We must bring a strong sense of self and purpose into a relationship. We must bring a sense of value, of who we are. We must bring an excitement about ourselves, our lives, and the vision we have for these two essential elements. We must bring a respect for wealth and abundance. Having achieved it to some satisfactory degree on our own, we must move into relationships willing to share what we have, rather than being afraid of someone taking it.”

“In the days of Ram Mohan Roy when English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it... They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities at the time of the Swadeshi movement.”

People Two Country Government Values Culture Father Left Results Accepting Movement Employment Divorced Nationality Value Of Life Estrangement Rams English Education

Author:Chittaranjan Das

“As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist -- Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.”

Knows Two Values Grows Jokes Thirds Marxist

Author:Karen DeCrow

“With biobanking there's just another tool available to make sure that the land we actually conserve has better biodiversity values. It's usually more contiguous. You see, just because you preserve two dozen trees at the end of a development site doesn't mean that's a great habitat.”

Mean Two Ends Values Tree Land Development Tools Available Preserves Dozen Site Habitat Biodiversity

Author:Frank Sartor

“Disregarding the value of religion and believing in egalitarianism are two misconceptions that cause America much trouble today.”

Believe Two Today America Values Causes Trouble Misconception Egalitarianism

Author:Charley Reese

“The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words “going along”. We simply go along with the values and practices of society.”

Ifs Believe Two Lying Values I Believe Sin Views Accepting Practice Keys Tendencies Biblical Preoccupation Discerning Worldliness

Author:Jerry Bridges

“If I owned any of these Hot New Issues that have doubled, tripled, quintupled or umptupled within days and in some cases hours after they were issued, I most certainly would grab my fabulous windfall, thank my lucky stars and invest the money. It's utter nonsense to think any newly issued stock is really worth two, ten or 20 times the [offering] price.... A management so stupid as to sell shares [cheap], and an underwriter so obtuse as not to discern the real value, together would provide reason enough for a sensible man to get rid of his shares.”

Ifs Thinking Men Two Real Reason Enough Together Values Stars Hours Cases Issues Share Stupid Lucky Ten Hot Management Sells Nonsense Sensible Offering Fabulous Real Value Lucky Star

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes the beauty or deformity of a man's character is the choice he makes under which banner he determines to enlist himself. But there is a strong distinction between different degress in the same thing and a mixture of two contraries.”

Men Mind Humans Two Different Self Character Values Choices Passion Strong Masters Pride Determine Contrary Distinction Human Mind Mixtures Banner Deformity

Author:Sarah Fielding

“The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.”

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Author:Rem Koolhaas

“They really just taught me at an early age the values of hard work. Both my parents are two of the hardest working people that I know, so that was a big foundation for me and something I really cherish and it really helped me to grow up in that kind of household.”

People Knows Kind Two Hard Bigs Age Values Grows Parent Growing Up Taught Hard Work Foundation Hardest Cherish Household Value Of Hard Work

Author:Blake Griffin