Devalue Quotes

• If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

  Lars von Trier

  Fall, World, Rationality

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• I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

  Ben Stiller

  Drama, Comedy, Bits

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• We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Country, Stress, Europe

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• Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Past, Race, Ideas

  "Tristes Tropiques". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Chapter 38: "A Little Glass of Rum," pp. 393, 1955.

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• We all want to be liked, loved, or needed. That is fine. What is not fine is what we are willing to do to make sure we are liked, or loved or needed. When we make the needs and wants of others a priority in our lives, we devalue ourselves.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Priorities, Needs, Want

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Oct 14, 2013

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• For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.

  Wes Fesler

  Achievement, Criticism, Critics

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• We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, Thinking, People

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• what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things.

  Anna Quindlen

  People, Matter, Use

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.106, Random House

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• When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.

  Roberto Unger

  Trying, World, Imagine

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• Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.

  Iain Banks

  Ocean, Nonsense, Paranoid

  "Excession (The Culture, Book 5)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 11 "Regarding Gravious", Section VI, p. 365), 1996.

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• Don't worry about where you are or what you have or even what you think you want. Take one step at a time and worry only about only this - who you are - who you really are. Find what you love, love what makes you happy - try giving instead of getting, try caring instead of hating. Remove the mindless distractions from your life and focus on the things and people that matter the most to you. Follow your heart to discover what makes you happy, never let go of it, never devalue anything that is beautiful, and build a life that lets you be yourself.

  Benjamin F Sullivan

  Love, Life, Beautiful

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• You'll never succeed with people who devalue you!

  Bob Beaudine

  People, Succeed

  FaceBook post by Bob Beaudine from Jan 02, 2016

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• Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. Of course we accept drunkenness. We allow people some brief respite from the material grind. A society that subscribes to that model is a society that is going to condemn the states of consciousness that have nothing to do with the alert problem-solving mentality.

  Graham Hancock

  People, Our Society, Society Today

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• Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

  Kit Reed

  Approval, Constant, Predictable

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• One of the prevalent features of life with an angry or controlling partner is that he frequently tells you what you should think and tries to get you to doubt or devalue your own perceptions and beliefs.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Thinking, Perception, Doubt

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.22, Penguin

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• We have made it possible, without gold and without foreign exchange, to maintain the value of the German mark.  Behind the German mark stands the German capacity for work, while some foreign countries, suffocated by gold, have been compelled to devalue their currencies.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Gold, Currency

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• Authentic love does not devalue another human being. Authentic love does not silence, shame or abuse. If you are in a relationship with someone who does not honor and respect you, I want you to know that you are worthy of love. Please reach out for help. Your voice will save you. Let it extend into the night, let it part the darkness. Let it set you free to know who you truly are - valuable, beautiful, loved.

  Brooke Axtell

  Beautiful, Night, Honor And Respect

  "Brooke Axtell Joins Katy Perry’s Grammys Performance To Stand Up Against Domestic Violence" by Jessica Goodman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2015.

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• If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Government, Order, Investing

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• The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Happiness, Hard Work, Wind

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• The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.

  Criss Jami

  Stress, Heart, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.103, Criss Jami

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• I don't think conservativism is about a deficiency. I think it's about a commitment to an ideology that has to in some ways devalue the usefulness of empathy. I do think empathy can be learned. And enhanced.

  Jim Shepard

  Commitment, Thinking, Empathy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.

  Alice Walker

  Fall, Caring, Gold

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• We're losing our companies; we're losing jobs; they devalue us out of business - China and these other countries.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Losing

  Source: townhall.com

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• I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly.

  Jack Kirby

  Men, Thinking, People

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• The only relationship we can have in this life is the relationship we have with ourselves. We cannot love anybody more than we love ourselves. We cannot treat anyone any better than we treat ourselves. When you forget you, give up on you, or devalue yourself, anyone coming into your life has a universal responsibility to follow your lead.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jul 12, 2016

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