quotes about Valuation

last updated: November 28, 2023

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.
-- Amelia B. Edwards

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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
-- Jack London

Source : Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.5942, Delphi Classics

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Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say

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All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.
-- Max Scheler

Source : Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

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I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.
-- Roy Keane

Source : "Roy Keane: a history of speaking out", www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2002.

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“The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.”
“What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgment in the case of humans who are similarly deficient.”

Source : Carl Cohen, Tom Regan (2001). “The Animal Rights Debate”, p.216, Rowman & Littlefield
“Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.”
“Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.”
“Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights donâ€™t exist simply because I am outnumbered.”
“I've never been to heaven and, thinking back on my life, I probably won't get a chance to go. I guess the Masters is as close as I'm going to get.”
“What you need will come back to you.”

Source : Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.303, Open Road Media
“I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.79, New York Review of Books
“Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.”
“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”