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• The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Majority, Fiction, Categorizing

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• Develop a mailing list... anyone who comes through your studio or meets you at art shows or anywhere. It's the power of permission-based marketing. Email your latest work to the list, every month.

  Cory Trepanier

  Art, Marketing, Email

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• In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Leap Of Faith, Ecommerce, Consumers

  "Why Ashton Kutcher Believes You Need to Own Quality T-Shirts". Interview With Corbin Chamberlin, www.elle.com. April 1, 2013.

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• It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

  Audrey Flack

  Art, Thinking, Commodity

  Audrey Flack (1986). “Art & soul: notes on creating”, Dutton Adult

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• By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

  Abe Ajay

  Fashion, Lonely, Art

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• Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Agriculture, Wealth, Prosperity

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the federalist, civil and military”, p.237

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• Artists of the world arise - it's time to dump your dealers.

  Mark Kostabi

  Artist, World, Arise

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• Our currency is what we are able to make.

  Robert Genn

  Able, Currency, E Commerce

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• I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

  Joseph Hume

  Agriculture, Giving, Branches

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• Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Liberty, Alliances

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.425

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• Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

  Robert Toombs

  Government, Agents, Common

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• Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wind, Literature, Wave

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• The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

  Michael Kinsley

  Marijuana, Law, Judging

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• The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

  Anita Brookner

  Life, Reading, Book

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• Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Long, Honour

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.844

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• The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

  Andrew Jackson

  Business, Government, Privilege

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Return, Investment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

  John Jay Chapman

  Focus, Magazines, Ratios

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  Daniel Boone

  Spring, Blessing, Hands

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.25, Applewood Books

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• Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

  Jeff Bezos

  Amazon, Want, Strive

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• Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

  Anthony Burgess

  Fashion, Men, Novelty

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Art, Wish, Crowds

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• Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

  Robin Hayes

  Running, United States, Nonprofits

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• British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Self, Ideas

  "Are the British really the worst-dressed tourists?" by Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2007.

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• And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Together, Too Much

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