"Nothing has value in itself. The consumer confers value on it by seeking to acquire it. Hence, the value of a thing is never objective, but always subjective."

-- Faustino Ballve

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“I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.”
“For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.”
“To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.”
“Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.”

Source : Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1931). “The King's English”, Oxford University Press
“My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.”
“A place is only as good as the people in it.”

Source : "Fictional character: John Smith". "I Am Number Four", 2011.
“In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most venerated of all human traits. From this it stands to reason that any man, knowing the total expanse of his existence to be finite, who does not devote every moment of his life to acts of pure selfishness, must be seen as nothing more than a fool.”
“What happened happened. What's gonna happen, is gonna happen.”

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