"Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity."
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"Bitcoin isn't tied to any commodity - besides trust."
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"Truth is life's most precious commodity."
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"I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities."
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"... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life."
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""Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many."
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"In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor."
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"Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious."
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"Competence is no longer a scarce commodity."
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"Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world."
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"Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency."
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"Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured."
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"There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities."
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"The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money."
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"Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison."
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"The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself."
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"The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed."
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"Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore."
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"The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly."
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