Commodity Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported

  David Ricardo

  Country, Heart, Principles

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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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• No one likes kids. We say we do, and we take pictures of pregnant women for People Magazine, but really they're commodities - we hate them around, we hate them on airplanes, we consider them a grand imposition and almost a style choice.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Hate, Airplane, Kids

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Order, Play, Differences

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• Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

  Fred Brooks

  Communication, Men, Tasks

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• I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Winning, Soul, Divine

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• I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people moving from one part of the world to another. It seems difficult to take an anti-globalization view if one takes globalization properly in its full sense.

  Amartya Sen

  Moving, Thinking, Views

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Kids, Looks, Corporations

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think part of being a parent, to love one's child, is to accept them as they come - not to see them as instruments of our ambition or as creatures to be molded, as if they were themselves commodities.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Ambition, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew - not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man - and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Jealous, Men

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• I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

  Amartya Sen

  Home, Thinking, Democracies Have

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• Once the dollar begins to collapse beneath the weight of all this new deficit spending, accumulation of contingency liabilities and the socialization of our economy, commodity prices and interest rates will head skyward.

  Peter Schiff

  Commodity Prices, Weight, Dollars

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• As the run-by-capital society of producers turned since into the run-by-capital society of consumers, I would say that the main, indeed "meta", function of the governments has become now to assure that it is the meetings between commodities and the consumers, and credit issuers and the borrowers, that regularly take place.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Running, Government, Credit

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity.

  Andrew Linzey

  Moving, Animal, Ideas

  "OneKind talks animal ethics with Andrew Linzey". onekind.scot.archived.website. June 21, 2011.

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• Success is the most valuable commodity.

  Dominick Dunne

  Valuable

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• The plant goes down. The industry is weaker. The price of the commodity has lagged. Any of those things can push people into unemployment or lower income categories, and that hurts.

  Chris Alexander

  Hurt, People, Income

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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• You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really remarkable because they claim that [Franklin] Roosevelt was impeded by the Neutrality Act. On the other hand, he bitterly condemned a Mexican businessman for sending several guns to the Republic. If you look back, oil was the one commodity that [Francisco] Franco could not receive from the Germans and the Italians, so that was quite significant.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Gun, Government

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• There's a sense in which Marx does contribute to the fund of human knowledge, and we can no more dismiss him than we can [George] Hegel or [Jean-Jacques] Rousseau or [Baruch] Spinoza or [Charles] Darwin; you don't have to be a Darwinian to appreciate Darwin's views, and I don't have to be a Marxist to appreciate what is valid in a number of [Karl] Marx's writings-and Marx would call that a form of simple commodity production rather than capitalism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Writing, Simple, Numbers

  Source: reason.com

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• I've been criticized by many anarchists as believing that anarchism is impossible without affluence. On the contrary, I think affluence is very destructive to anarchism. If you are absorbed by that commodity world then you're not going to move toward any radical positions, you're going to move toward a stance of protectiveness.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Moving, Thinking

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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