Values Quotes - Page 31

• The god hypothesis is no longer of any pragmatic value for the interpretation or comprehension of nature, and indeed often stands in the way of better and truer interpretation. Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.

  Julian Huxley

  Cat, Fading, Way

  'Religion without Revelation' (1957 ed.) ch. 3

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• The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

  Voltaire

  Play, Theatre, Way

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• The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.

  Robert Hughes

  Choices, Leader, Library

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• If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

  Sam Harris

  Logical Arguments, Should, Prove

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• The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Hero, Conflict, Threat

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• I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will spend the rest of my life exploring what could happen through the life of one who is willing to cultivate the God-given appetite to see impossibilities bow to the name of Jesus.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Names, Promise

  Bill Johnson (2010). “When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are risk averse by nature - but the only way you can reach your full potential is by taking chances. Understand that you are capable of far more than you've achieved, believe that you have something of value to share with the world, and take care to step outside of your comfort zone and into your greatness. Your courage will inspire others to do the same.

  Les Brown

  Believe, Greatness, Inspire

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• Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.

  Les Brown

  Believe, Priorities, Purpose

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• Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.

  Sam Harris

  Facts, Conscious, Well Being

  "Sam Harris: Can Science Determine Human Values?". library.fora.tv. November 10, 2010.

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• Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

  Abigail Adams

  Integrity, Honor, Littles

  "Character and the IRS" by Terry Newell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2013.

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• There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

  Carlos Santana

  Peace, War, Flower

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• Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

  Graham Greene

  Travel, Men, Jet Planes

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• There's something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them.

  Bill Johnson

  People

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• Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.

  William Petty

  Change, Loss, Pieces

  Sir William Petty (1769). “Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland”, p.79

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• The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

  William Scranton

  Relationship, Government, People

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• No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war? ... [T]hese remarks originate purely in a desire to maintain the powers of government as they are established by the Constitution between the different departments, and hope that, whether we have conquests or no conquests, war or no war, peace or no peace, we shall yet preserve, in its integrity and strength, the Constitution of the United States.

  Daniel Webster

  War, Integrity, Military

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• The power of equations lies in the philosophically difficult correspondence between mathematics, a collective creation of human minds, and an external physical reality. Equations model deep patterns in the outside world. By learning to value equations, and to read the stories they tell, we can uncover vital features of the world around us.

  Ian Stewart

  Lying, Reality, Mind

  Ian Stewart (2012). “Seventeen Equations that Changed the World”, p.9, Profile Books

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• Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

  George Chapman

  Men, Her Beauty, Littles

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• There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

  John Mayer

  People, World, Power To Change

  "John Mayer On 'Sexual Napalm' Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Aniston, Porn & His Penis". Playboy Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And since his first days in office, President Obama has worked to strike the proper balance between the security the American people deserve and the openness our democratic society expects.

  John O. Brennan

  Government, People, Office

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

  Sam Harris

  Mind, Suffering, Facts

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.

  John Piper

  Heart, Mean, Grace

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• In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Layers, Infinity, Sensitive

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• The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Heaven, May

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• I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.

  Ernst Haas

  Wall, Believe, Photograph

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