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"Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition."
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"Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters."

"If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner."

"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."

"Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up."

"I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision."

"If we want to be free [get liberated], don't compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours."

"Hmm", Jason snapped his fingers. "I can call a friend for a ride.Percy raised his eyebrows. "Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first."

"Where there is competition, one cannot attain (true) 'Knowledge'."

"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"

"Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score."
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"Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another."


"It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities."


"But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively."


"The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well."


"It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities."


"The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science."


"As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production."


"For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights."


"Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices."
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