At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
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Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.
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As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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No leader sets out to become a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely—all your skills, gifts, and energies—in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and enjoy the process of becoming.
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You have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute
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I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the ...
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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We're not working on spinning off any part of the business. They give good leverage points across the company, which are of value.
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Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that before we can be of value ...
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If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.
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If your only measure of value is color, then you shall never appreciate the transparence of diamonds.
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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
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The lesson of value which money teaches, which the Author of the Universe has taken so much pains to teach us, we are inclined to skip altoget...
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In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value What is my worth Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.
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In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all o...
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There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side of it that suddenly opens up. ...
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In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.
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Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
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The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
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Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
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Quality is presence of value and not absence of mistake.
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There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.
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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
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Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
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