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If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

~David Ricardo

Topics: Because Classes Commercial Commodities Degree Demand Diminished Fall Far Greater Home Increased Landlords Opulence Part Rent Should Will

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If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.

~David Ricardo

Topics: Commodities Commodity Every Increase Labour Lower Must Quantity Realized Regulate Value Which

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I feel like when it comes to the models, certain models are now like commodities in certain ways.

~Edward Enninful

Topics: Certain Commodities Feel Like Models Now Ways I Feel I Feel Like

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Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buying oil tankers. This is not a financial system that has calmed down and is there to serve the American people.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: American American People Biggest Buying Commodities Down Financial Financial System Institutions Oil Out People Serve Some System Trading

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While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Abroad American Bid Block Certain Commodities Companies Competitors Contracts Deny Designed Disapproval Express Find Foreign French German Hostile Japanese Legislation Perhaps Regimes Resources Tangled Themselves Trade Web While

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The iPod has taken away the whole platinum record sales prospect. Sincerity and specificity are going to be the hot commodities in music. Everybody can have anything that they want, so now it gets into what specifically you have to give.

~Eric Lewis

Topics: Anything Away Commodities Everybody Gets Give Going Hot Ipod Music Now Platinum Prospect Record Sales Sincerity Specifically Specificity Taken Want Whole You

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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Commodities Equality Just Man Mass Modern Process Production Requires Social Standardization

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I think my biggest fear is having another global war which might have been a result of sharing the primary commodities in the world.

~Fatih Birol

Topics: Another Been Biggest Commodities Fear Global Having Might Primary Result Sharing Think War Which World I Think

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MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.

~Gary Weiss

Topics: Business Commodities Commodity Dealers Depend Did Farmers Financial Fund Global Good Grain Had Known Livelihood Man Managers Others Placing Prices Reasonably Reputation Trades Used Well Whose

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With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.

~Gary Weiss

Topics: Been Bucks Cause Commodities Devoted Enormous Oil Other Trading

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