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  • I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late -- Steven Magee
  • Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. -- Sidney Hook
  • In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art. -- Julian Barnes
  • But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities. -- Alfred Marshall
  • Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored. -- David Suzuki
  • If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression. -- Edward Hopper
  • The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money. -- Vivian Campbell
  • Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to nature's most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues. -- Stanley B. Prusiner
  • Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. -- Adam Clarke
  • The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position. -- Noam Chomsky
  • A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. -- Steven Pinker
  • Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. -- Andrew Bernstein
  • The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent. -- William A. Dembski
  • All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis. -- Jacques Ellul
  • Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity. -- Jim DeMint
  • Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.' -- Ai Weiwei
  • Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible? -- Duane Michals
  • People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast. -- Thomas Kincade
  • Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for. -- Brenda Strong
  • Value investing by its very nature is contrarian. -- Seth Klarman
  • We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms. -- Dick Black
  • We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms. -- Dick Black
  • Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value. -- Thomas Friedman
  • Most people aren't cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain, -- Jean-Marie Eveillard
  • In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it. -- Radhanath Swami
  • For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most. -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest. -- John Dryden
  • [A personĂ‚?s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. -- David Hume
  • Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward. -- Wayne Dyer
  • It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity. -- William Vickrey
  • Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels. -- Saint Augustine
  • To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value. -- Sharon Salzberg
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