Quote by David Ricardo
After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the f

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated. – David Ricardo

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The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities. – David Ricardo

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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. – David Ricardo

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Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. – David Ricardo

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Food brings people together on many different levels. Its nourishment of the soul and body its truly love. – Giada De Laurentiis

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The music I do is food… that will be your dinner. – Ziggy Marley

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Hopefully, imparting whats important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together. – Thomas Keller

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We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should. – Bill Gates

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