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• Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre of commodity or a section in a bookstore, by breaking it. Michael Moorcock revived fantasy by prying it loose from morality; writers like Jeff VanderMeer, Stepan Chapman, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, Nathan Ballingrud are doing the same by prying fantasy away from pedestrian writing, with more vibrant and daring styles, more reflective thinking, and a more widely broadcast spectrum of themes.

  Michael Cisco

  Writing, Thinking, Style

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• Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?

  Ellen Page

  Fun, Animal, World

  "Jared Leto and Ellen Page Named Sexiest Vegetarians". www.eonline.com. June 26, 2014.

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• Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.

  Joan Lindsay

  Falling In Love, Art, Waiting Rooms

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• Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Marketing, Doe

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.125, Open Road Media

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• Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time limited as that commodity is in our days of probation. One must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Waste, Wasting Time, Probation

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Sweat

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.24, Rodale

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• Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A course of investment, once charted, should be given time to work out. Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

  David Dreman

  Fashion, Work Out, Investing

  David Dreman (1998). “Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Practice, Differences

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2018). “Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.441, Hachette UK

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• Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.

  Tony Robbins

  Mean, Self, Patterns

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• Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

  Oveta Culp Hobby

  Perseverance, Prayer, Taken

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• You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

  Peter Cushing

  Silly, Long, Film

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• What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Mirages, World

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• Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning … Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty, what it has always been: life's most precious commodity. The only difference is that, finally, we know it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Time, Honesty, Differences

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• As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.

  Dave Heineman

  Opportunity, Years, Agriculture

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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.

  Laura Miller

  Deep Thought, Attention, Demand

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

  Madame de Stael

  Giving, Charity, Fountainhead

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• It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.

  Stephanie Mills

  Cutting, Past, Vocabulary

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.130, Island Press

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• Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, Real Value, Values

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Mother, Children, Memories

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• Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Fellow Man, Modern

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.88, Open Road Media

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• Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Peace, Government, Law

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• The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

  Johanna Sigurðardottir

  Country, Citizens, Way

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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.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  World, Transformation, Upside Down

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• Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and
  stuntmen.

  William S. Burroughs

  Agency, Danger, Stuntman

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Hibbard (1999). “Conversations with William S. Burroughs”, p.185, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.

  Marc Faber

  Oil, People, Six

  "MARC FABER: Sure Gold Is Down, But Apple Is Down By Twice As Much" by Sam Ro, www.businessinsider.com. April 12, 2013.

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