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«A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist»
«If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words.»
Author: Esther B. Fein
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
commodities, commodity, export, exports, The United Nations, United Nations
«Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die.»
Author: Gary Hirshberg
| About:
Compromise,
Quality
| Keywords:
afford, commodities, commodity, compromise, waver, wavered, wavers
«It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?»
Author: William Booth
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
advantages, commodities, commodity, plentiful, wage
«If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people / including me / would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
absolute truth, cells, commodities, commodity, context, including, In Context, journalism, prison cell, professional, Rio, rots, rotted, rotting, Seattle
«The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.»
Author: John D. Rockefeller
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
coffee, Coffee and, commodities, commodity, purchasable, sugar, The Sugar
«CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrangement, commodities, display, exhibitor, intent, intents, minor, neighbor, observe, of his own, The Arrangement, wares
«As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
apprentice, apprentices, commodities, eighths, fall behind, just now, old fashioned, Too Old, tradesman, tradesmen
«Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
commodities, production, social process, The Social
«Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
acquired, at the least, capital, commodities, eggs, lays, occult, offspring
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