Quotes with use-value

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  • Mahatma Gandhi Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Casey Affleck All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Carl Sagan All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ruth Ross All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.
    Ruth Ross
    New Zealand historian (1920 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling All we have of freedom - all we use or know - this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Wyndham Lewis Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Adam Schiff Although every step must be taken to protect against a chemical or biological attack in America, our nation would survive the use of those weapons as we did when anthrax was mailed to our Capitol and other targets.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Benny Blanco Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Joseph Joubert Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Arleigh Burke Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
    Arleigh Burke
    American admiral of the US Navy (1901 - 1996)
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  • Katharine Whitehorn Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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  • Ezra Pound Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
    The Second Neurotic's Notebook (1966)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Ayn Rand Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • William James As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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