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“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

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“The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“Labour . . . is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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“Graham held that price is what you pay and value is what you get.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

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“a sentimentalist . . . is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortably as possible?”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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“any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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