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• Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

  Andrzej Stasiuk

  Loss, Availability, Checks

  Andrzej Stasiuk (2009). “Fado”

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• Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.

  Tillie Olsen

  Economy, Profit, Products

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.170, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Brave, Planning, Form

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.204, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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.

  Edward de Bono

  Mind, Facts, Reason

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• I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

  Hugh Jackman

  Couple, Kids, Thinking

  Interview With Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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

  C. L. R. James

  Historical, Today, Imperialism

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• No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Gold, Enjoy, Marketability

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• I'm aware of the power of looks. I've wanted to play roles that have gone to much better-looking people and you just think 'Oh well, that's the pin up guy's an actor like my friend James Mcavoy, who's gorgeous on screen. I'm not that. But at least I don't have to worry about taking precious care of my face because it's my commodity. That's a great freedom. I'm not afraid of being heinous for the sake of a part

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Play, People

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• People think that you're supposed to marry your type well, I didn't marry my type. It's much more practical, and based in a day-to-day existence. So when you have that, and you're happy, and you love her, don't waste time. Because time - and I've learned that at this point in my life - time is my most precious commodity. Nothing is more precious than time. Because when it runs out that's it

  Michael Ealy

  Running, Thinking, People

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• I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.

  River Phoenix

  Lying, Names, Psychology

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

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

  Eloisa James

  Silence, Conclusion

  Eloisa James (2012). “Paris in Love”, p.101, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Gold is unique because it has the age-old aspect of being viewed as a store of value. Nevertheless, it’s still a commodity and has no tangible value, and so I would say that gold is a speculation. But because of my fear about the potential debasing of paper money and about paper money not being a store of value, I want some exposure to gold.

  Seth Klarman

  Unique, Age, Gold

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• Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

  Jim Rogers

  Mean, Cutting, Tough Times

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• Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.

  Matt Ridley

  Uniqueness

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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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• It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs.

  Frances Trollope

  Should Have, Cities, People

  Frances Trollope (2015). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.65, Sheba Blake Publishing

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