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• If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.

  Seth Godin

  Organization, Ideas, Knowing

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• When you're in a commodity business, the only way to thrive is to be a low-cost producer. And when you're selling money, you're in a commodity business.

  Duff McDonald

  Cost, Banking, Way

  Duff McDonald (2009). “Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

  Jane Asher

  Home, Names, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Robbie Fowler

  Firsts, Treated, Persons

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• In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

  Edward Bernays

  Practice, Fabric, Dozen

  "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays, 1928.

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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.

  Karl Marx

  Hands, Long, Process

  Karl Marx (1957). “Capital”

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• The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

  Francis Bacon

  Father, Men, Tyrants

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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?

  Susan George

  Real, Fighting, Healthcare

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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.

  Steve Forbes

  Oil, Dollars, Saws

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Adam Smith

  Natural, Wealth Of Nations

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.70, VM eBooks

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• As we are brought into God's extraordinary kingdom through ordinary means, we are remade, no longer fashioned as competitors for commodities in a world of scarce resources, but as co-sharers with Christ in the circulation of gifts that flows outward from its source without running out.

  Michael Horton

  Running, Mean, Ordinary

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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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.

  Ben Affleck

  Actors, Investment, Used

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There are lots of parts of filmmaking that I don't like. At the end of the day, especially on features, the film turns into a commodity. You have to play this entirely new game I'm very uncomfortable with.

  Taika Waititi

  Play, Games, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals. It is merely subjective and is excluded from policies. The latter is objective - defined by science and promulgated by expert spokesmen. This objective knowledge is viewed as a commodity which can be refined... and fed into a process, now called decision-making. This new mythology of governance by the manipulation of knowledge-stock inevitably erodes reliance on government by people.

  Ivan Illich

  Government, People, Decision

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• When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.

  Erwin McManus

  Voice, Knowing, Live Your Life

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• In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is why energy security will be one of the main challenges of foreign policy in the years ahead. Oil and gas have always been political commodities.

  Daniel Yergin

  Country, Years, Oil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

  Groucho Marx

  Precious Stones, Comedian, Gold

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.69, Da Capo Press

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• I make films about working class people. All my films have always been about that. For example, the brothel is a workplace. It's aberrant, but a workplace nonetheless. I was more interested as opposed to glamorizing and saying, oh, this is a great erotic place, it's a place of business. The commodity is sex.

  Taylor Hackford

  Sex, Class, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Good Day

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• Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Feelings, Use

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.117, A&C Black

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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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Judging, Hateful, Common

  A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

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• If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it - I say it isn't news.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Radio News, Care, Acceptable

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Government, Ideas, Support

  Lawrence Lessig (2002). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, p.76, Vintage

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• Life insurance is a commodity.

  Andrew Tobias

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

  Karl Marx

  Greatness, Relative Value, Substance

  Karl Marx (1913). “Value, Price and Profit”

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