George Santayana
Philosopher, Poet
"Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator."
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Relative Value
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Robert Henri
Artist
"Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production."
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