Cost is the source of value creation and the driving force of earning profit.

成本是价值创造的源泉，也是产生利润的驱动力。

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The challenge, they say, is the rise of digital media-since the Web grinds down barriers to entry that are the source of value creation.

他们说，数字媒体的兴起是一种挑战，因为网络消灭了进入这一领域的壁垒，而这种壁垒正是创造价值的源泉。

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In the west, from Socrates to Kant and Nietzsche, there remained some drawbacks in dealing with the problem of the source of value.

在西方，从苏格拉底到康德、尼采，在价值根源问题的解决上皆有缺憾。

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For many investors in Asia, gold's role as a source of safety and value has been reinforced over the past year of economic uncertainty.

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" Kolakowski saw this as "a particular instance of the difficulty inherent in any doctrine which views genuine human effort as the unique source of moral value while at the same time refusing to acknowledge any human contribution to the results of that effort.

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There are two general theories that exist about the source of the value premium.

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Could it be that the source of our real value as leaders might come from different thinking and different choices rather than from perpetuation of the incessant pace we are straining to maintain?

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