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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
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Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need substance as well as frosting.
Ralph T. Flewelling
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
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The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
Eugen Herrigel
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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.
George Bernard Shaw
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In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.
Chuang-tzu
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Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli
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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Anon.
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