David Ricardo Quotes
If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
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The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
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He never fails to hit the target. But that was a miss.
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History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.
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If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.
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The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
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If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
