The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.
Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
We learned the value of research in World War II.
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.
I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.
