#commodity

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power. ↗

— Omar Bongo

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For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#commodities #commodity #constant #given #man

You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#because #championships #commodity #day #entire

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare? ↗

— Susan George

#commodity #education #fight #healthcare #marketable

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of. ↗

— Jim Mitchell

#commodity #create #more #scarcity #time

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#commodity #never #slump #which #words

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too. ↗

— Jan Morris

#adventure #become #commodity #either #into

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own. ↗

— River Phoenix

#am #because #commodity #does #especially

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it. ↗

— David Ricardo

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If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it. ↗

— David Ricardo

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