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Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

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Something that is merely negative creates nothing.

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What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.

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Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

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Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

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Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.

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The devil take this wrong arithmetic. But never mind.

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It is impossible to persue this nonsense any further.

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Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!

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The religious world is but the reflex of the real world.

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The object before us, to begin with, material production.

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A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

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The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.

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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist

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To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

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The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine.

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Mankind always sets itself only such problems as it can solve.

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Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

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If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.

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Prominent because of the flatness of the surrounding countryside.

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Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

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No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

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Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

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The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

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Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.

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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.

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