#val

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#heredity #history #inheritance #values #change

The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents. ↗

— Joe Moore

#constituents #embody #laws #mores #our

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#god #inspirational #religion #inspirational

The volume of your voice does not increase the validity of your argument. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#validity #voice #volume #experience

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#learning #neither #survival

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. ↗

— Steven Biko

#birth #black #consciousness #country #dignity

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#dares #discovered #hour #man #time

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#became #creek #death #fast #father

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#average #averaging #beginning #built #close

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance. ↗

— Max Bill

#beauty #conjectures #creating #embody #far