"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."

Change, Money, Power, Time

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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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"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth."

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"Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law."

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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."

Wealth,

"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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"But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities."

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"Consumption may be regarded as negative production."

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"Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money."

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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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"It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character."

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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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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

John Wooden, American Coach

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"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman

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"Change in all things is sweet."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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