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• Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.

  Kevin Kelly

  Business, Heart, Years

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• It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

  Paul Goodman

  Powerful, People, Community

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.38, New York Review of Books

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• The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

  Voltaire

  Play, Theatre, Way

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• The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.

  Robert Hughes

  Choices, Leader, Library

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• You are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn't priceless? No. There's no such thing as a worthless newborn. And the essential value that was born into brand-new-baby you can never be extinguished. This means that even if you think you're being absolutely honest, believing yourself to be anything other than astonishing, incomparable, and infinitely precious makes you a habitual liar.

  Martha Beck

  Baby, Liars, Believe

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• If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

  Sam Harris

  Logical Arguments, Should, Prove

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• The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Hero, Conflict, Threat

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• It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and theyll keep coming back.

  Dave Thomas

  Clean, Restaurants, Coming Back

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• I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will spend the rest of my life exploring what could happen through the life of one who is willing to cultivate the God-given appetite to see impossibilities bow to the name of Jesus.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Names, Promise

  Bill Johnson (2010). “When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are risk averse by nature - but the only way you can reach your full potential is by taking chances. Understand that you are capable of far more than you've achieved, believe that you have something of value to share with the world, and take care to step outside of your comfort zone and into your greatness. Your courage will inspire others to do the same.

  Les Brown

  Believe, Greatness, Inspire

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• The journey makes things valuable not the title. Learn to enjoy and value the process of what God is doing.

  Bill Johnson

  Journey, Titles, Process

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• Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.

  Les Brown

  Believe, Priorities, Purpose

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• Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.

  Sam Harris

  Facts, Conscious, Well Being

  "Sam Harris: Can Science Determine Human Values?". library.fora.tv. November 10, 2010.

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• There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.

  Francis Bacon

  Mean, Science, Men

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

  Martha Beck

  Love You, People, World

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• Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

  Abigail Adams

  Integrity, Honor, Littles

  "Character and the IRS" by Terry Newell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2013.

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• There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

  Carlos Santana

  Peace, War, Flower

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• The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.

  John Piper

  Creating, World, Glory

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• Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

  Graham Greene

  Travel, Men, Jet Planes

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• There's something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them.

  Bill Johnson

  People

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• They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

  Pliny the Younger

  Favors

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• ...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.

  Larry King

  Media, Years, People

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• Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.

  William Petty

  Change, Loss, Pieces

  Sir William Petty (1769). “Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland”, p.79

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• The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

  William Scranton

  Relationship, Government, People

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• The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Freedom, Lying

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