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    Bitcoin isn't tied to any commodity - besides trust.

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    But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

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    By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.

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    Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

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    Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it

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    Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

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    Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

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    Conversation: A fair for 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.

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    Democracy is not a commodity for import and export.

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    Everyone is now a customer or client, and every relationship is ultimately judged in bottom-line, cost-effective terms. Freedom is no longer about equality, social justice, or the public welfare, but about the trade in goods, financial capital, and commodities.

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    Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities — for the replacement of things by commodities, use values by exchange values, and events by images.

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    Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.

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    Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such.

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    Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

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    "Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

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    Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

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    Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.

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    For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

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    Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.

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    Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

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    gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.

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    Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

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    Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

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    I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

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    Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity

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    I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

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    Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

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    Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

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    I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

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    I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy's is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science, in a way. And when you're filming, the thing comedy depends on becomes a much more difficult commodity. The thing you depend on is spontaneity.

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    I don't think you should invest in commodities. Eddie Murphy made it seem risky in Trading Places.

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    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.

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    I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.

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    ... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

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    I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

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    If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

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    I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.

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    I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

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    I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

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    I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

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    Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

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    In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

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    In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

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    Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

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    In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.

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    It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.

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    In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.

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    In the market economy the worker sells his services as other people sell their commodities. The employer is not the employee's lord. He is simply the buyer of services which he must purchase at their market price.

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    In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

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    I was a commodity, like a hot dog. It was like hot dogs and Betty Hutton.