Quotes with use-value

Quotes 381 till 400 of 862.

  • Friedrich Nietzsche Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Jean François Lyotard Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.
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  • Anton Chekhov Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Noam Chomsky Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Mark Twain Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Warren Bennis Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
    Warren Bennis
    American scholar, organizational consultant and author (1925 - 2014)
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  • George Chapman Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
    George Chapman
    English writer and poet (1559 - 1634)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Beau Willimon Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • John Irving Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.
    Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 248
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bobby Flay Lime juice makes things taste fresher. I use it for drinks, salsas, relishes, soups, and sauces. You want some give to your limes - firmness means the inside is dry - and they'll stay softer longer if you don't refrigerate them.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Ezra Pound Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Carlos Castaneda Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Carl Sandburg Look out how you use proud words.
    When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.
    They wear long boots, hard boots.
    Primer Lessons (1922)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Ericka Huggins Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world.
    Ericka Huggins
    American activist (1951 - )
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  • Erich Fromm Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Luminous quotations alone, by their interest, for the dullness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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