"Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price."

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Source : 1817 Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

David Ricardo

#Politics Quotes #Economy Quotes #Natural Quotes

“Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the comforts of life, while in the meantime Providence has tenderly preserved you.”
“In keeping with his cryptic nature, all your Story Weaver said was 'The horses know where to go.' It's certainly not a military strategy I would use, but I've learned that the south uses its own strategy. And, strangely enough, it works.”
“There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away from the manual labor and servant-type jobs, but there wasn't much else they were going to allow you [to] do.”
“Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.”

Source : William Cobbett (2012). “A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland”, p.231, TAN Books
“I couldnt change who I am; I couldnt change the kind of player I am.”
“I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.”
“Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation”
“If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.”

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