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The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#consists #determine #dispose #employed #exchanged

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#differently #dress #dress-up #hair #i

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#carolinas #exports #great #population #quite

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will? ↗

— Johnny Unitas

#always #ball #confidence #could #had

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance. ↗

— John Zorn

#bad performance #check #classical #comfortable #fact

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#ask #asked #because #black #blond

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#bitter #cannot #coming #desired #dreadful

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#another #calling #cannot #employment #how

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? ↗

— George Carlin

#could #english #english language #i #i am