Quotes with use-value

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  • Samuel Johnson The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Graham The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and sits future is highly uncertain.
    Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. X, The Status of Gold and Silver, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • C. S. Lewis The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Albert Einstein The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Goldacre The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Peter Mcwilliams The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
    Peter Mcwilliams
    American self-help author (1949 - 2000)
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  • Oscar Wilde The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Sir William Osler The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate... Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Peter de Vries The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Thomas Hardy The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Charles Bukowski The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the ''Watchtower'' itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.
    Charles Bukowski
    American writer (1920 - 1994)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • George W. Bush The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Henry Miller The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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