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LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
David Ricardo
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Among the calamities of War may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.


— 1758  In The Idler, no.31,11 Nov.

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Language forms a kind of [[wealth], which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.

auguste comte

— Volume II, page 213.

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Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by a diminished cultivation.

thomas malthus

— David Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, (Third Edition),Chapter II, p. 41

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Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by diminished cultivation.

David Ricardo

— Chapter II, On Rent, p. 41

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When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

Adam Smith

— Chapter IX (Book I)

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There never is any diminution of the vast majority, indifferent to what they are, whence they came, and whither they go, who rush from business to pastime, and from pastime back to business, leaving no vacancy into which the unknown might slip a little experimental greatness.

henry s. haskins

— p. 57 (Meditations in Wall Street (1940))

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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.

samuel johnson

— No. 163 (8 October 1751).

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Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.

samuel johnson

— No. 30 (November 11, 1758).

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Surplus value is exactly equal to surplus labour; the increase of the one [is] exactly measured by the diminution of necessary labour .

karl marx

— Notebook III, The Chapter on Capital, p. 259

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You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or even mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

bertrand russell

— "The Emotional Factor"Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.
Often paraphrased as "The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."

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He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm. That is how she looks when she is alone! had been his first thought; and the second was to note in her the change which his coming produced.

edith wharton

— "The House of Mirth" (1905), bk. 1, ch. 6

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Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital . Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by a diminished cultivation.


— David Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, (Third Edition),Chapter II, p. 41

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Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by diminished cultivation.


— David Ricardo (1821) The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation Chapter II, On Rent, p. 41

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Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth , by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.

samuel johnson

— Samuel Johnson in: War, Media, and Propaganda: A Global Perspective, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 14 September 2004, p.60

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The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

David Ricardo

— Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817)

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