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  •    Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and havenotcharity,Iam becomeassounding brass, ora tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all mygoodstofeed thepoor, and though Igivemy body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not herown, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Corinthians13:1^13.

  • With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Solemnization of Marriage, Wedding.

  • Almost the whole pollution^environmental problem is summed up in the proposition that all goods are generally produced jointly with bads.

    - Kenneth Ewart Boulding
      In Sam H Schurr (ed) Energy, Economic Growth, and the Environment (1972).

  • The community lacksgoods and a million and a quarter people lack work. It is certainly one of the highest functions of national financeand credittobridgethegap between the two.

    - Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
      Letter to Otto Niemeyer, 22 Feb. Collectedin D E Moggridge Maynard Keynes (1992).

  • One of the saddest features of the real world is that goods do not spontaneously present themselves for distribution.

    -The Economist
      The Economist, 5 Nov.

  • The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces and the more his production increases in powerand extent.The worker becomes anevercheaper commodity the more good he creates. The devaluation of the human world increases in direct relation with the increase in value of the world of things. Labour does not only create goods; it also produces itself and the worker as a commodity, and indeed in the same proportion as it produces goods.

    - Karl Heinrich Marx
      Collected in T B Bottomore (trans and ed) Early Writings (1964), p.121.

  • You bind the goods and trappings of your life together with your dreams to make a place that is uniquely your own.

    - Charles W(illard) Moore
      The Place of Houses, introduction.

  •    A Bill of Rites, A Bill of Wrongs, A Bill of Goods.

    -Wright Marion Morris
       Title of essay collection.

  • Hardly one lighter or boat in three that had the goods of a house in, but there was a pair of virginalls in it.

    - Samuel Pepys
      Describing the chaos on theThames as people attempted to rescue their possessions from the flames. Diary entry, 2 Sep.

  • Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcityand from the labour required to obtain them.By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour.

    - David Ricardo
      Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

  • The word, it is to be observed, has two different meanings, and sometimes the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. This one may be called 'value in use'; the other,'value in exchange'. The things which have the greatest value in usehave frequently little or novalue in exchange; and on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use. Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce any thing; scarce any thing can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has scarce any value in use; but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it.

    - Adam Smith
    VALUE1776  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.4.

  • Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

    -Thorstein Veblen
      Theory of the Leisure Class.

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