Quotes with use-value

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  • Benjamin Jowett Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
    In conversation with Logan Pearsall Smith. Reported in Smiths Unforgotten Years
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Ahmet Necdet Sezner Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.
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  • Alan Lakein Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?
    Alan Lakein
    American author on personal time management
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  • Napoleon Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Terence Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • J. G. Ballard Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Albert Einstein Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Billy Graham Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Bill Bixby Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.
    Bill Bixby
    American actor, director and producer (1934 - 1993)
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  • Walter Lippmann Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Ben Rattray Social networking technology didn't really exist until 2004-2005. I had the idea to use this technology to bridge this gap between a general interest in addressing social issues and the practical action.
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  • George D. Prentice Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Beth Henley Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Ben Katchor Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Arthur Ashe Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
    Arthur Ashe
    Robert Ashe Jr (1943 - 1993)
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  • Bill Dedman State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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