#valuable

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left. ↗

— Mort Kondracke

#academic #bankruptcy #churchill #employed #intellectual

I think women are too valuable to be in combat. ↗

— Caspar Weinberger

#i #i think #think #too #valuable

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#benefit #come #country #diamonds #discovered

I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks. ↗

— Bob Odenkirk

#because #become #could #crazy #fear

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time. ↗

— Chris Paul

#i #i always #money #most #my time

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #evils #gold #lamentation #less

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#end #equal #game #hardly #pawn

When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#attack #attacked #attacking #between #checked

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#consider #deserving #families #female #first

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#basic #cannot #comfort #life #many