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Quotes About Depreciate

MARIA. Well I'll not debate how far Scandal may be allowable — but in a man I am sure it is always contemtable. — We have Pride, envy, Rivalship, and a Thousand motives to depreciate each other — but the male-slanderer must have the cowardice of a woman before He can traduce one.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.
~ Edward Gibbon
Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs, despite impulses to be done with it, I unceasingly affirm love, within myself, as a value. Though I listen to all the arguments which the most divergent systems employ to demystify, to limit, to erase, in short, to depreciate love, I persist, I know, I know, but all the same...
~ Roland Barthes
The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate
~ Samuel Johnson
Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value—surprisingly quickly. —DAVID MAISTER, BUSINESS AUTHOR AND CONSULTANT
~ Stephen M.R. Covey
Only people can be made to increase in value. Computers and other equipment depreciate and eventually become obsolete.
~ Brian Tracy
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
~ Carl Jung
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
~ Warren Buffett
La cordialité surfait avec autant de plaisir qu'en prend la taquinerie à déprécier.
~ Marcel Proust
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
~ Carl Jung
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
~ Kenzo Tange