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It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove that wealth does not consist in money, or in gold and silver; but in what money purchases, and is valuable only for purchasing. Money no doubt, makes always a part of the national capital; but it has already been shown that it generally makes but a small part, and always the most unprofitable part of it.
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In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

edward berays

— p. 39 (Propaganda (1928))

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By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended, His satisfaction, and His merit. All is done by the price that Christ lays down, which does two things: it pays our debt, and so it satisfies; by its intrinsic value, and by the agreement between the Father and the Son it procures our title, and so it merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery, and the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.

jonathan edwards

— P. 489. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.

william stanley jevons

— Chapter I, Introduction, p. 51

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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

Adam Smith

— Chapter I, p. 471

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Now, we need to understand that listening to music on your computer is an extra privilege. Normally people listen to music on their car or through their home stereos [...] If you are a Linux or Mac user, you should consider purchasing a regular CD player."


— Tommi Kyyrä, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, Finland, 2005 [7]

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It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove that wealth does not consist in money , or in gold and silver; but in what money purchases, and is valuable only for purchasing. Money no doubt, makes always a part of the national capital; but it has already been shown that it generally makes but a small part, and always the most unprofitable part of it.


— Adam Smith (1776) The Wealth of Nations Book IV Chapter I, p. 470

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The major vehicle of for the transition to the capitalist mode of production was the textile industry of eighteenth - century England. In cloth production mercantile wealth was visibly transformed into capital , as it acquired the dual function of purchasing machines and raw materials, on the one hand, and buying human energy to power their operation on the other.


— Eric Wolf Europe and the People Without History (1982) Chapter 9, Industrial Revolution, p. 267

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'Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

lord byron

— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto V, Stanza 27.

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Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

peter schiff

— "Peering into the Abyss"[1], 29 March 2009.

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The major vehicle of for the transition to the capitalist mode of production was the textile industry of eighteenth - century England. In cloth production mercantile wealth was visibly transformed into capital , as it acquired the dual function of purchasing machines and raw materials, on the one hand, and buying human energy to power their operation on the other.


— Eric Wolf Europe and the People Without History (1982) Chapter 9, Industrial Revolution, p. 267

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By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended, His satisfaction, and His merit. All is done by the price that Christ lays down, which does two things: it pays our debt, and so it satisfies; by its intrinsic value, and by the agreement between the Father and the Son it procures our title, and so it merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery, and the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.


— Jonathan Edwards, p. 489. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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