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  • The words “prize,” “praise,” “price,” “appreciate,” and “depreciate” are all related—they come from the same Latin root word pretium, meaning “value.”

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • The words “prize,” “praise,” “price,” “appreciate,” and “depreciate” are all related—they come from the same Latin root word pretium, meaning “value.”

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • The words “prize,” “praise,” “price,” “appreciate,” and “depreciate” are all related—they come from the same Latin root word pretium, meaning “value.”

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • The words “prize,” “praise,” “price,” “appreciate,” and “depreciate” are all related—they come from the same Latin root word pretium, meaning “value.”

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • Symphonia: Sum fluxae pretium spei, Carter's big 1990s anthology, started off in blazing fashion with a "Partita" that was absolutely, bracingly stunning, precision horsepower married to a taut, tough sonic clarity.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Symphonia: Sum fluxae pretium spei, Carter's big 1990s anthology, started off in blazing fashion with a "Partita" that was absolutely, bracingly stunning, precision horsepower married to a taut, tough sonic clarity.

    Magna Carter (8): You've got a head start Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Sola digna tu fuisti ferre saeculi pretium, atque portum praeparare nauta mundo naufrago, quem sacer cruor perunxit, fusus Agni corpore.

    Sing, my tongue bls 2009

  • There are ancillary values beyond mere pretium affectionis, sentimental value.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » What the Didden Case Tells Us About Sotomayor’s Attitude Towards Property Rights: 2009

  • In itinere, Caesar ab piratis qui pretium viginti talentorum exegerunt surreptus est.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Now that’s how you deal with pirates. 2009

  • Sola digna tu fuisti ferre saeculi pretium, atque portum praeparare nauta mundo naufrago, quem sacer cruor perunxit, fusus Agni corpore.

    Archive 2009-04-01 bls 2009

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