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Alfred Marshall

"Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species."

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"Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species."

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Amber Hurdle

"While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk."

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"Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence."

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"Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt."

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"When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent."

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"Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list."

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"Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else."

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Amber Hurdle

"If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?"

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"There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude."

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"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."

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"As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo."

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"The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes."
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"Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money."
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"In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old."
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"And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned."
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"All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth."
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"The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century."
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"Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time."
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"In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context."
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"All labour is directed towards producing some effect."
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