| "Time extracts various VALUES from a painter's work. When these VALUES are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is." »Henri Matisse |
| "Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than VALUES. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's VALUES." »Gerald |
| "Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the VALUES are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized VALUES." »Willa Sibert Cather |
| "If a nation VALUES anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it VALUES more, it will lose that, too." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of VALUES." »William Ralph Inge |
| "A people that VALUES its privileges above its principles soon loses both." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset VALUES" »Alan Greenspan |
| "The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of VALUES." »Norman Thomas |
| "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's VALUES." »Ayn Rand |
| "Don't let your special character and VALUES, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -- don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency." »Aesop |
| "VALUES are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others." »Johathan Sacks |
| "Pick a man for his human qualities, his VALUES, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks." »Carol Botwin |
| "Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and VALUES." »Helen Merrell Lynd |
| "It is very important to make sure the person you're marrying is like minded. It's crucial for a couple to have shared goals and VALUES. The more you have in common the less you have to argue about." »Barbara Friedman |
| "If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, VALUES, and fantasies on everyday life." »Eric Hoffer |
| "Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and VALUES you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust." »John Fellows Akers |
| "It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired VALUES which are best expressed in prose." »Boris Pasternak |
| "Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires and likewise a weighing of relative social VALUES." »Louis D. Brandeis |
| "The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve the VALUES we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated." »Ronald Reagan |
| "The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He VALUES his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach." »Edgar Albert Guest |
| "Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he VALUES most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline." »Lewis Mumford |
| "If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of VALUES, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning." »Carl R. Rogers |
| "Our institutions and VALUES are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality -- do whatever makes the most money." »Barry Schwartz |
| "Our American VALUES are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings." »Jimmy Carter |
| "Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God VALUES in service." »Bruce Kemper |
| "Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, VALUES, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
| "We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American VALUES are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself." »Jimmy Carter |
| "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive VALUES. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those VALUES, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future." »Dr. Dale E. Turner |
| "It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic VALUES-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle." »John Updike |
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