#value

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#does #fought #his #i #man

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs. ↗

— Betty Shabazz

#believer #cultural #distinct #firm #firm believer

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice. ↗

— Elizabeth Joan Smith

#gulf #high #life #practice #put

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. ↗

— Vash Young

#experience #into #something #transformed #value

Often in life we forget the things we should remember and remember the things we should forget. ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#age

There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#fiction #on-fiction #talent #value #vocation

...it would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of all the regulations and precepts of civilization. Along with their pretended sanctity, these commandments and laws would lose their rigidity and unchangeableness as well. People could understand that they are made, not so much to rule them as, on the contrary, to serve their interests; and they would adopt a more friendly attitude to them, and instead of aiming at their abolition, would aim only at their improvement. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#freud #religion #values #attitude

In a rule-based society, we often choose efficiency over value, but, while rules-based governance systems may often serve well the values of fairness and representation, their seeming efficiency hides a deep and important flaw: We often rely on rules when they are not, in fact, the most efficient or effective solution to getting the result that we desire. ↗

— Dov Seidman

#business

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#asked #cannot #continued #costs #development

Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency. ↗

— John W. Snow

#currency #exchange #i #make #our