"Understand that the only possession of any value is life."
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"Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things."
"O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of."
"How can I go out there and create value?"
"The value of e-commerce is not in the e, but in the commerce."
"We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value."
"Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying and I've been saying this for six months."
"Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes."
"If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it."
"From adversity we can learn the value of patience."
"What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about."
"They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied."
"We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value."
"Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things."
"There remains an experience of incomparable value."
"Rather than looking for another religion, look for the values that are in every religion."
"Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society."
"I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work."
"The economists will have to revise their theories of value."
"Our happiness relies more on hope, faith and our inner values than on anything outside ourselves."