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• Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public good, except for in some cases a very small audience. This has become more and more clear in the last few years as academics have become so insular, often unwilling or unable to defend the university as a public good, in spite of the widespread attacks on academic freedom, the role of the university as a democratic public sphere, and the increasing reduction of knowledge to a saleable commodity, and students to customers.

  Henry Giroux

  Academic Freedom, Years, Lasts

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. The monopolists, by keeping the market constantly understocked, by never fully supplying the effectual demand, sell their commodities much above the natural price, and raise their emoluments, whether they consist in wages or profit, greatly above their natural rate.

  Adam Smith

  Competition, Secret, Demand

  Adam Smith, James R. Otteson (2004). “Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.114, Imprint Academic

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• Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

  Adam Smith

  Taxation, Sugar, Rum

  Adam Smith (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner”, p.399

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• Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

  Warren Buffett

  Competition, May, Labels

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• You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

  Jim Rogers

  Hot, Analysts, Young

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• What's most insidious about MTV is that it commodifies precisely those things that young people believe are subversive. In other words, subversity itself has become a commodity. It's all a way to trick young people into believing that there's something unique about what they do, but this is all completely a corporately designed maneuver.

  Todd Solondz

  Believe, Unique, Mtv

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• The major changes that will be occurring within the new merged partnership are exciting in many ways. First, we will have the highest forecast distribution growth rate of any of the major MLPs. Second, our coverage will be above average for the same peer group with expected $1.1 billion of excess cash flow coverage through 2017 and the Access cash flows, along with our major new fee based projects continue to dramatically reduce exposure to commodity prices.

  Alan Armstrong

  Commodity Prices, Cash Flow, Average

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• The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

  Francis Bacon

  Father, Men, Tyrants

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• Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

  Michelle Shocked

  Resources, Music Is

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• If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.

  Seth Godin

  Organization, Ideas, Knowing

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• Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Derivatives, More Money, Trading

  "The many selves of Sebastian" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites. In simple terms, we calculate what is best for our children by regarding them as investments and turning them into commodities.

  Jack Zipes

  Religious, Children, Educational

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• Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Shame, Humiliation, Industry

  "The price of shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2015.

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• After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing of pop music and rock music, I don't think anyone really believes that music is anything more than another commodity.

  Stephen Fry

  Stars, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• I do feel like I owe something, but not to the industry. When you say "industry," I think of a group of people who don't really care much about you and treat you as a commodity. So, in that regard, I don't feel like I owe anything. But the people who've always been supportive of me and have always seen me for my greatest potential-those are the people who I feel like I owe something to. I feel like I am their voice. I owe it them to represent them in a way that they can be proud of.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, Voice, People

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• I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking of true, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.

  Hedi Slimane

  Teenage, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I hate how on TV they have to fill so many minutes. It means they have to put in anything, and by doing so they sort of trivialize news; news becomes this commodity that they need to fill dead time between commercials with.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hate, Mean, Needs

  Source: www.charlierusso.com

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• I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

  Merle Haggard

  Honesty, World, Likes

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• The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

  Susan George

  Real, Fighting, Healthcare

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• Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Execution, Strategy

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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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• Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

  Fred W. Friendly

  Pork, National Parks, Machines

  "Videoculture". Rushworth M. Kidder, Christian Science Monitor, June 10, 1985.

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• We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Comfort, Culture, Void

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.128, Three Rivers Press

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• Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who stole my compassion, my empathy and my conscience? Who lied to me? Who instilled this vicious mindset of human-to-animal exploitation as standard operating procedure?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Compassion, Views

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• Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.

  Aliko Dangote

  Achieve, Bigs, Breakthrough

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