David Ricardo Quotes
It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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Cruelty is not a literary value.
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Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
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There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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Value is what you get.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.
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School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
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I have no regrets except that I wasn't up to keep Randy (Rhoads) from getting on that plane.
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I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city.
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.
