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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

#commodities #commodity #diminution #every #exchangeable

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn. ↗

— David Ricardo

#certainly #classes #commercial #corn #encouragement

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#cultivation #gradually #import #lands #left

If there ever is government-run health care, the first ones to sign up should be the president and every member of Congress, including myself. You should be able to keep the insurance you've got today, if you like it, and always choose your own doctor. ↗

— Mike Ross

#always #care #choose #congress #doctor

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce. ↗

— David Ricardo

#class #correctly #either #judge #labour

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits. ↗

— David Ricardo

#fall #labour #profits #rise #value

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#chosen #doing #films #love #maybe

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#being #come #hideous #i #kill

I'm always in bed by 11 or 12 and people laugh all the time - they want me to hang out until two in the morning, but n-n-no, I need my nine hours. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#bed #hang #hours #i #laugh

My sister and I shared a bedroom our entire lives and I believe she discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So from the age of 7 until 17 we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia in our room, even those little stuffed Beatles that went on stands that are dressed as the Sgt. Pepper band. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#age #band #beatles #bedroom #believe