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- A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
- Ignazio Silone
- Never value the valueless. The trick is to know how to recognize it.
- Sidney Madwed
- Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that affects their lives. Also from moment to moment they may even change their values. Such as a person, who values diamonds above all else, might be willing to trade a gallon of diamonds for a drink of water to save his life in a desert. What this means is value is a relative thing depending on a need or a perceived need. Yet, how many people will argue and even violently fight over the perceived value of something or some idea only later have an entirely different view point or value.
- Sidney Madwed
- It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.
- Euell Gibbons
- The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
- Dogen Zenji
- You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.
- Sidney Madwed
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