#produce

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article. ↗

— Ross Perot

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I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer. ↗

— Leon Uris

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Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer. ↗

— Alain Resnais

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A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

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As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity. ↗

— David Ricardo

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If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them. ↗

— David Ricardo

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It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce. ↗

— David Ricardo

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Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production. ↗

— David Ricardo

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Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent. ↗

— David Ricardo

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