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Letter "O" » of value
«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.»
«Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.»
«. . . the waste even in a fortunate life, the isolation of a life rich in intimacy, cannot but be felt deeply, and is the central feeling of tragedy. And anything of value must accept this because it must not prostitute itself; its strength is to be prepared to waste itself, if it does not get the opportunity.»
«Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Emotion
| Keywords:
blackmail, blackmailed, obtained, of value, resulting, sentimental
«A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
bag, card, credit card, credit cards, Gucci, of value, strap, strapped, straps
«Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.»
Author: Jim Rohn
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
continue, departed, effect, get around, impact, impacted, impacts, of value, share, significant, significant other
«How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Spirit,
Truth
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became, more and more, of value
«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.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
hierarchies, hierarchy, hierarchy of, obligation, of value, sciences, The Philosopher
«Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
constraints, of value, power politics, secondary, sources, system of government, unintrusive
«A good wife is of value only to her husband. A good mother is a national asset.»
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