Values Quotes - Page 22

• No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war? ... [T]hese remarks originate purely in a desire to maintain the powers of government as they are established by the Constitution between the different departments, and hope that, whether we have conquests or no conquests, war or no war, peace or no peace, we shall yet preserve, in its integrity and strength, the Constitution of the United States.

  Daniel Webster

  War, Integrity, Military

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• The power of equations lies in the philosophically difficult correspondence between mathematics, a collective creation of human minds, and an external physical reality. Equations model deep patterns in the outside world. By learning to value equations, and to read the stories they tell, we can uncover vital features of the world around us.

  Ian Stewart

  Lying, Reality, Mind

  Ian Stewart (2012). “Seventeen Equations that Changed the World”, p.9, Profile Books

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• Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

  George Chapman

  Men, Virtuous Woman, Virtuous

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• I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

  Jayson Blair

  Blow, Feels, Unfortunate

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• Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

  Scott Adams

  Ideas, World, Rewards

  Scott Adams (2013). “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life”, p.17, Penguin

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• Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

  William Ellery Channing

  Taken, Good Friend, Blessing

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• Perhaps one day we will do “everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for.” But today, we won’t even honestly describe the motivations of our enemies. And in the act of lying to ourselves, we continue to pay lip service to the very delusions that empower them.

  Sam Harris

  Motivation, Lying, People

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• Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.

  Don Marquis

  Irritation, Personality, Able

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• DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value,
  They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands.
  FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.

  John Webster

  Past, Hands, Duchess

  John Webster (2014). “The Duchess of Malfi”, p.24, A&C Black

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• You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Thinking, Choices, Mind

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• Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

  George Chapman

  Men, Her Beauty, Littles

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• There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

  John Mayer

  People, World, Power To Change

  "John Mayer On 'Sexual Napalm' Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Aniston, Porn & His Penis". Playboy Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.

  Anne Campbell

  People, Vote, Britain

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• Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And since his first days in office, President Obama has worked to strike the proper balance between the security the American people deserve and the openness our democratic society expects.

  John O. Brennan

  Government, People, Office

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

  Sam Harris

  Mind, Suffering, Facts

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

  Sam Harris

  Fall, Views, People

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

  Robert Morgan

  Technique, Famous Writers, Make Sense

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• To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.

  John Piper

  Heart, Mean, Grace

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• In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Layers, Infinity, Sensitive

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• I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

  Kenneth Clark

  Believe, Genius, Individual

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.220, Hachette UK

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• The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Heaven, May

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• I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.

  Ernst Haas

  Wall, Believe, Photograph

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• It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.

  William Petty

  Years, Soil, Bears

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• Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

  Helen Lynd

  Expression, Desire, Sentimental

  Helen Merrell Lynd (2013). “On Shame And The Search For Identity”, p.203, Routledge

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• Many people don’t realize the extent to which stories influence our behavior and even shape our culture. Think about how Bible stories teach the fundamentals of religion and rules of conduct. Think of the fables and parables that molded your values. Think of how stories about your national, cultural or family history have shaped your attitudes about yourself and others.

  Lawrence Shapiro

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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