Top Commodity Quotes
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.
Rudolf Hiferding
If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.
Brett Hull
Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.
John Buchanan Robinson
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson
In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.
David Ricardo
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John D. Rockefeller 
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
Omar Bongo 
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Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
Jan Morris
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For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
Ana Castillo
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Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.
Carol Kane
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I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.
River Phoenix
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Popular Commodity Authors
Adlai E. StevensonEdwin Louis ColeKarl Marx StingTim RobbinsRon ChernowLeslie FiedlerSusan GeorgeChristine BaranskiOmar BongoC. L. R. JamesGeorge SorosDaniel J. BoorstinDavid RicardoJohn Buchanan Robinson
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