David Ricardo Quotes

• 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.

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• The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

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• Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of the market, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

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• It is not to be understood that the natural price of labour, estimated even in food and necessaries, is absolutely fixed and constant. It varies at different times in the same country and very materially differs in different countries. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people.

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• The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

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• The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

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• The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

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• The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

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• The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

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• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

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• Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

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• Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.

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• Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

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• Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

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• Mother’s interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

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• Money can add very much to one’s ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

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• MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

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• It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

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• I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

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• I think I am basically a happy person.

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David Ricardo (62)

Birth:	18th April, 1772
Death:	11th September, 1823
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Economist

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David Ricardo was born in London. He was a British political economist, stock trader, and author. He was often credited with systematising economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economists, along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, and John Stuart Mill.

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