"Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature."

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Source : 1817 Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

David Ricardo

#Competition Quotes #Wages Quotes #Legislature Quotes

“My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.”
“Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .”
“If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.”

Source : John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”
“It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.”

Source : Sabrina Jeffries (2006). “Only a Duke Will Do”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take asteroids as a serious scientific concern, as well as a concern for protection of mankind and survival of the planet. This is not some kook policy. It's the protection of the interests of every single individual life on this planet.”
“The Chinese people will be busy with their own affairs for generations to come and there is no need at all for the country to threaten anybody or any nation.”
“I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.”
“On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.”

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