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Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick. -- Lin Yutang
All things change. The automobiles change every year. [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition. All things in the scientific world change. But politicians do not change. They carry old values and they don't even know it. -- Jacque Fresco
I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment. -- Lisel Mueller
Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the values. -- Justin Podur
America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation. -- Paul Sarbanes
You totally value and respect your body as you get older. -- Jenny McCarthy
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. -- Thomas A. Edison
I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world. -- Sally Field
I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty. -- Carre Otis
There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent. -- Sharon Stone
A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values. -- Steven Spielberg
In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans. -- Juan Williams
For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant. -- Margaret Cho
As I get older, I increasingly value free time that's completely free of appointments. Time to think, time to reflect, time to just hang out with my wife and kids. -- Joe Mansueto
What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with. -- Brad Pitt
I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag. -- Ian Watson
I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which so many of these country songs are related to. -- Clifton Collins, Jr.
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. -- Barack Obama
Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value. -- John Leo
As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected. -- Jenna Morasca
The charge that liberal candidates don't connect with or understand the values and beliefs of regular Americans is embedded in old epithets like 'limousine liberal,' which I first heard aimed at New York Mayor John Lindsay in 1969. -- Jeff Greenfield
While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future. -- Stephen Bayley
We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that. -- Susan Hampshire
We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy. -- Michael Bloomberg
I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. -- Madonna Ciccone
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. -- Emily Post
It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values. -- Jim Hightower
It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances. -- Connie Willis
My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting. -- Woody Allen

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