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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Life Good Good Life Chiefly

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

Theodore Roosevelt

You Together Mind Team

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Food Song World Gold

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Bertrand Russell

Beautiful Power Slavery Because

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Freedom Democracy Survival Human

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

Men Time Imagination Result

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men Society Great Nothing

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

Matter Always How Matters

Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.

Culture Perfectionism

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

Work Value Social Worker

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I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.

Richard Dawkins

Family Knowledge History Parents

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Health Sickness Till

That which costs little is less valued.

Miguel de Cervantes

Costs Little Which Less

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

W. Clement Stone

Alone You Giving Will

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

Family Women Culture Youth

One of the great things about my mother is she really valued people's character more than what they did.

Hillary Clinton

Mother Character People Great

The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Truth Happy Things Being

Valued companionships begin with a personal commitment to be an exemplary companion.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Commitment Personal Companion Begin

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Orison Swett Marden

Work Quality Long World

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Quality Culture Power Wealth

We know that society is better - more prosperous, more stable, more peaceful, more cohesive - when women's rights are respected and when women are valued, empowered, and lead the way in our communities.

Women Society Better Way

I've always valued the input of the people I love. So in the past, whenever I'd make a decision - what to wear to an event, whether to pursue a job opportunity - I'd consult those closest to me, like my mother, husband, or manager.

Love Me Mother People

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

You Think Literature Enough

My definition of feminism is a social, political, economic system by which all genders are valued, respected, and can live dignified lives.

Political Live Economic Feminism

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Louis D. Brandeis

Happiness Courage End Independence

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Work Women Opportunity Hands

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