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“The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open. They are very restrictive. We live in an age that is not enlightened.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?”

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Author:Nafis Sadik

“We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and ideas.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.”

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Author:L. Tom Perry

“The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic freedom, based on individual rights for men and women, .. I think that is what makes us such a draw for nations around the world. People come to the United States to be educated, to become Americans. We are a country of countries and we touch every country, and every country in world touches us.”

“We label things through value systems that we have developed. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that way. We give ground to reality by creating it.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.”

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Author:Lauren Zalaznick

“I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men are bad, women are good, let's get women empowered" - it's let's get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it.”

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Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.”

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Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Develop all four intelligences. PQ (physical intelligence) which represents 70 trillion cells that fight disease and digest your breakfast. IQ (intellectual intelligence) EQ (emotional intelligence) the sensing and wisdom of the heart - - and SQ (spiritual intelligence) having to do with meaning, purpose and integrity around your selected value system and your believed source. When combined, they change the world for good.”

“I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people now are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed to overflowing for the first time in years.”

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Author:Jane Goodall

“When you make giving a priority, something happens inside of you. Especially when it's financially challenging to do so. It's like you loosen your grip on a value system whose motto says, "Money is the key to life and happiness and safety."”

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Author:Andy Stanley

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

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Book:The Beatitudes: Developing Spiritual Character

Source: The Beatitudes: Developing Spiritual Character

“Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.”

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Author:John Cleese

“Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.”

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Author:Alyson Stoner

“As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.”

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Author:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

“Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.”

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Author:Dennis Prager

“I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.”

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Author:Benjamin Carson

“The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them”

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Author:Edgar Schein

“I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?”

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Author:Amy Poehler