"I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes."

-- David Ricardo

#Men Quotes #Pay Quotes #Commodity Quotes

“thats why you cant be worried about the world. theyll just do you in anyway. you can't depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disapear and leave you there alone.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Dec 28, 2016
“I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.”

Source : "The Unanswered Question" by David Cairns, www.nytimes.com. May 23, 1976.
“As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.”
“My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat--a boat which, to revert to Neurath's figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.”
“Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.”

Source : Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.35, Marshall Cavendish
“Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.”
“I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.”
“I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a brilliant plan. Unfortunately, real life canâ€™t be wrapped up with a nice little bow”

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