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Value is the life-giving power of anything cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
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All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.
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Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically morally, none whatsoever.
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What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
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I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.
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Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.
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The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.
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