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    Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.

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    Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!

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    Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up!

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    Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon-intensive commodity.

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    Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

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    Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

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    Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

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    Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

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    Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.

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    Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

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    Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that isn't a priority in the traditional program of learning. This is unacceptable in a so-called 'enlightened' society.

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    Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

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    Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.

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    The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

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    Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

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    The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

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    Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.

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    The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

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    The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

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    The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

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    The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

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    The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

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    The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

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    The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.

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    The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it.

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    The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.

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    The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

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    The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

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    The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

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    The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.

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    The production of fuel from basic food commodities is, in fact, unjustifiable.

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

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    There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.

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    There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

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    The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.

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    There were the days when women were under contract, and they were thought of as a commodity, so they hired the best writers and a lot of them were women at the time. This was in the thirties and forties, to make product for the people who were under contract, who were their assets to the studios. But that doesn't exist anymore - and as a result, the people who are in the industry write products that interest them.

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    There is no such thing as a commodity. It is simply a product waiting to be differentiated.

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    The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

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    The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

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    There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

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    The thing you have to remember is, oil and gas are commodities, and the more we use them the more the price goes up, like any commodity. Solar, wind - they are technologies, so the more you use them, the more the price goes down.

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    The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

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    Time is the only commodity that matters.

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    To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.

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    Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

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    Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

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    Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.

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    The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

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    Time is a perishable commodity.

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    Time is our most finite commodity, therefore our most valuable, and I respect other peoples' time.