#val

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#been #close #even #expand #fair

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#companionship #deprived #devise #exercises #human

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. ↗

— Sissy Spacek

#appeals #before #dozen #dwarfed #else

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee. ↗

— David Spade

#i #make #money #parker #picked

There is no higher value in our society than integrity. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#integrity #our #society #than #value

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#comfortable #energy #find #i #instead

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#also #believe #closest #decide #evaluate

There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#cultures #different #different cultures #evaluate #institutions

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#any #disgraceful #drinking #excessive #habits

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #bridges #deal #early #exchange