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The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words. -- Jose Saramago
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary. -- Marcel Duchamp
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words. -- Bianca Jagger
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things. -- Michael Nesmith
In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process. -- Hugh Hefner
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love. -- Jon Corzine
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. -- Rene Daumal
Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them. -- Antonio Banderas
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
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. -- Pythagoras
For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.' -- Kenneth Chenault
If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it. -- David Ricardo
As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value. -- Sally Phillips
Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
a defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words ... -- Emmeline Pankhurst
Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes. -- Amit Kalantri
Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
If you value your words, people will not ask you to make any promises. -- Amit Kalantri
My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech. -- Patricia Briggs
They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied. -- Pliny the Younger
I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions. -- Rachel Corrie
Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you. -- John Clare
The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world. -- Laozi
Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value. -- Edwin Newman
Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves. -- Laozi
Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value. -- Frederick William Robertson
what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things. -- Anna Quindlen
We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words. -- Louie Giglio
Good medicine is bitter to the mouth, but has an effect on the disease. Faithful words hurt one's ears, but have value for one's conduct. -- Takeda Nobushige
Had she any respect for him at all, his words would've affected her. But no value accompanies comments spewed from the mouth of a brute. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value. -- Warren Buffett
The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see. -- Richie Benaud
A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -- Charles Caleb Colton
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
We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding. -- Eleanor Robson Belmont

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