Quotes with use-value

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  • Barry Ritholtz The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • William James The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Cat Stevens The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • William James The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Tony Robbins The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Ford The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.

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    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • E. M. Forster The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Henry James The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Eliza Farnham The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Dale Carnegie The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Beeban Kidron The Internet has crept up on us, and we need to know what it is and start looking at it. We have to decide which bits we want, which bits we don't, and how we're going to use them - and how we're going to put pressure on the people who deliver these goods to deliver what we really want.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • E. B. White The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Samuel Johnson The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ann Landers The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Jim Rohn The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Jim Rohn The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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