#nic

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. ↗

— Karl Marx

#appears #brings #commodity #extremely #first

I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy. ↗

— Walter Matthau

#buy #calm #coat #dressed #give

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#attain #because #beings #communicate #decent

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting. ↗

— David McCallum

#earn #enjoy #enough #famous #i

Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it's a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously I don't use animal skins or fur of any kind. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#any #beautiful #between #collections #contain

I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#added #being #doing #extra #helped

I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea. ↗

— Mike McCready

#constant #diarrhea #i #immediate #life

I think you're the grumpy Kid in the Hall, I'm the nice Kid in the Hall. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#hall #i #i think #kid #nice

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#agencies #appetite #both #century #congenial

Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before. ↗

— Ed McMahon

#back #before #city #come #cultural