#commerce

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

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The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment. ↗

— Alex Winter

#commerce #days #end #enormous #expecting

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#honor #long #prevails #sinks #where

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand! ↗

— Daniel Boone

#bid #blessings #commerce #descending #hand

My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#border #commerce #ensure #flow #free

Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#commerce #country #foreign #infrastructure #invaluable

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#commerce #go #know #make #much

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#art #art form #associated #commerce #consumed

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. ↗

— Hu Shih

#brought #changes #china #chinese #chinese people