Values In Society Quotes

• To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

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  Charles Koch

  Meaningful   Meaningful Work   Values  

  Charles G. Koch (2007). “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company”, p.154, John Wiley & Sons

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• All the things we value in society don't mean much in fiction.

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  Martin Amis

  Mean   Fiction   Values  

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

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  Yvon Chouinard

  Adventure   Pride   Rocks  

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.18, Penguin

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• When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a more obvious use value in society. They're not happy with poetry being this ephemeral, indefinable thing. They want it to be "real."

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  Elaine Equi

  Real   Thinking   Machines  

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

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  Alexander McCall Smith

  Sight   Attachment   People  

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