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• Information is the most valuable commodity in the world today and this business is about giving people access to information that is relevant to their lives.

  James Murdoch

  Business, Media, People

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• The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with love as the only rational answer to the problem of human existence must, then, arrive at the conclusion that important and radical changes in our social structure are necessary, if love is to become a social and not a highly individualistic, marginal phenomenon.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Love Is, Important

  "The Art of Loving". Book by Erich Fromm, 1956.

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• Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.

  William Osler

  Faith, Should

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.149, Ravenio Books

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• Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Hands, Oil, Important

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• The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

  Samuel

  Men, Pigs, Iron

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

  Julio Frenk

  Care, Privilege, Humans

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• A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. . . .
  It is something that we must build up. You have to create within yourself the experience of beauty, liberation, and infinity. This is health.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Drug, Pills, Body

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• The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Philosophy, Exercise, Men

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364

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• If your business is not a brand, it's a commodity.

  Donald Trump

  Business, Branding, Brands

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• At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day.

  Michael Leunig

  Nature, Cutting, Thinking

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• Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, War, Corn

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• If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Philosophy, Communication

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum.

  Karl Marx

  Race, Maintenance, Alive

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics

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• Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

  Wilbur Ross

  Ships, Strange, Kind

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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

  Angela Carter

  Taken, World, Force

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.32, Hachette UK

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

  Mark Zandi

  Japan, Financial, Economy

  "Mark Zandi: No Global Impact From Japan". Interview with Lori Ann LaRocco, www.cnbc.com. March 17, 2011.

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• It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

  A. J. Liebling

  Knowledge, Survival, Anomalies

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• Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Quality

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.9, Penguin

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• Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

  Peter McWilliams

  Acceptance, Law, Discipline

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1993). “We Give to Love: Giving Is Such a Selfish Thing : Notes and Quotes on the Joys of Heartfelt Service”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else will follow you. If you are successful there is an accompaniment. If your goal is just to make money you won't succeed. Money is a commodity to use, not to be dictated by.

  Frank Lowy

  Wisdom, Business, Successful

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• Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

  James Gibbons

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  James Gibbons (1896). “The Ambassador of Christ”

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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.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Real, Commitment, Investing

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1966). “How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price”

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• For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.

  Larry Lucchino

  Distance, Cancer, Benches

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• My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop one voice that readers will recognize when they hear it on the page, a voice that's enjoyable not only in its musical line but in its avoidance of sounds that would cheapen its tone: breeziness and condescension and clichés.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Voice, Musical

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• Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  People, Office, Political

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