“Admonition never sinks so deeply on the heart as in the hour of trial; young, amiable as you are, life teems, I doubt not, with various blessings for you--blessings which you will know how to value properly, for early disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.” KnowsHeartYoungValuesHoursKnow HowDoubtBlessingDisappointmentVariousTrialsNurseAmiableAdmonition Book:The Children of the Abbey: A Tale Source: The Children of the Abbey: A Tale
“In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound” DifferentValuesPiecesErrorsProfoundComplexesVariousChessUnusualMistakenBizarreVariables Book:Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems Source: Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems
“I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and by the various schemes for agricultural restriction. The latter, in particular, I should strongly support in principle. But too much emphasis on the remedial value of a higher price-level as an object in itself may lead to serious misapprehension as to the part which prices can play in the technique of recovery. The stimulation of output by increasing aggregate purchasing power is the right way to get prices up; and not the other way round.” WayShouldMayMeanPlayValuesSocialJusticeLevelsPrinciplesSupportToo MuchObjectsParticularSeriousHigherSocial JusticeRoundsInvestingVariousTechniqueIncomeRecoveryLatterSchemesRight WayEmphasisRestrictionOutputStimulationPurchasingExpediencyPurchasing Power Author:John Maynard Keynes
“Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.” AgeValuesFoundNumbersExpressionWesternVariousAlternativesFascismMarxismLegionAmerican ValuesEnamored Author:Dennis Prager
“I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.” PeopleWantMindMayIdeasDoneSeemsWould BeValuesPoliticsTakenPositionGoes OnOughtWasteBusyVariousBoardsTemporarySenatorsImpressCongressmanGreat Value Author:Calvin Coolidge