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According to the what economist Nicholas Barr describes as the " classical definition of income :" the 1938 Haig-Simons definition, " income may be defined as the ... sum of ( 1 ) the market value of rights exercised in consumption and ( 2 ) the change in the value of the store of property rights ..." Since the consumption potential of non-monetary goods, such as leisure, cannot be measured, monetary income may be thought of as a proxy for full income.
:" The redemption of Israel will come about through the mystic force of the letter “ Vav ” has the numerical value of six, namely, in the sixth millennium ….
:" The third " truth value " u is thus not on par with the other two t and f in our theory.
* French law recognising colonialism's " positive value :"
:" Such algebras have an intrinsic value for separate detailed study ; also they are worthy of comparative study, for the sake of the light thereby thrown on the general theory of symbolic reasoning, and on algebraic symbolism in particular.
:" The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Daxia ) and Parthia ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hanshu, Former Han History ).
:" The expense of horse labour, from the increased value of the animal and the charge of his keeping, being an object of great importance, it is recommended that, upon all sizable farms, that is to say, where two hundred acres m², or upwards, of grain are sown, the machine should be worked by wind, unless where local circumstances afford the conveniency of water.
:" ven Metcalfe's law understates the value created by a group-forming network as it grows.
Wichitas claim the name comes from their word " waks ' ahe: ts ' i " ( The apostrophe represents a glottal stop, like the middle sound in " oh oh "; " a " is schwah (" uh "); " e :" sounds almost like the " a " of " hat "; " ts " before " i " in this language often sounds like " ch " to English speaking ears ; " i " has the continental value, like the one in English " machine ").
:" The ' value ' of particular artists after Duchamp can be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art.
Peter Vlautin addressed the jurors in confidential tones, contrasting with O ' Mara's shouting :" We are here today to determine one thing: What is the value of Dorothea Puente's life?
:" Liberty is in real value next unto Life: None ought to part with it themselves, or deprive others of it, but upon the most mature Consideration.
:" The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Daxia ) and Parthia ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hanshu, Former Han History ).
:" The electronic instrument's value is chiefly as a novelty.
:" The sole object of this work is to consider, firstly, whether man, like every other species, is descended from some pre-existing form ; secondly, the manner of his development ; and thirdly, the value of the differences between the so-called races of man.
" The Globe noted that the ease with which Lowe played the game led many to understate his value to the club :" For a grand player, Lowe is seldom given the credit often dished out to his inferiors.
:" Adam Smith, who so accurately defined the original source of exchangeable value speaks of things being more or less valuable, in proportion as they will exchange for more or less of this standard measure.
:" One sort of labour adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect.
:" Fair market value is defined as the amount in cash or terms reasonably equivilent to cash, for which in all probability the property would be sold by a knowledgeable owner willing but not obligated to sell to a knowledgeable purchaser who desired but is not obligated to buy.
:" The way our studio operated was that anything that comes in – there ’ s no value judgements made about the music.
:" The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Daxia ) and Parthia ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hanshu, Former Han History ).
:" Suppose that a cask of new wine, which cost £ 50, is put into a cellar, and that, at the end of twelve months, it is worth £ 55, the question is: Should the £ 5 of additional value, given to the wine, be considered as a compensation for the time the £ 50 worth of capital has been locked up, or should it be considered as the value of additional labour actually laid out in the wine?

:" and any
:" This law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.
:" Clemens never had any quarrel with the theory of Christian Science or mental healing, or with any of the empiric practices.
:" Mr Cotton Mather was the most active and forward of any Minister in the Country in those matters Goodwin children and Goody Glover, taking home one of the Children, and managing such intrigues with that Child, and after printing such an account of the whole, in his Memorable Provinces in 1689, as conduced much to the kindling of those Flames, that in Sir Williams time Salem Witch Trials threatened the devouring of this Country.
:" If I had stated ... the possibility of the introduction or origination of fresh species being a natural, in contradistinction to a miraculous process, I should have raised a host of prejudices against me, which are unfortunately opposed at every step to any philosopher who attempts to address the public on these mysterious subjects ".
:" And so, sir, in the lonelier and perhaps even more disheartening moments which come to any national leader, I hope there will be a corner of your mind and heart which takes cheer from the fact that you have an admiring friend, a staunch friend that will be all the way with LBJ.
:" More than any other single factor or incident, Mojave Desert incident from Frémont's second expedition report is where the Kit Carson legend was born ..."
:" In the absence of any new management action, that is, if boat mortality rates continue to increase at the rates observed since 1992, the situation in the Atlantic and Southwest regions is dire, with no chance of meeting recovery criteria within 100 years.
:" According to physicalism, the language of physics is the universal language of science and, consequently, any knowledge can be brought back to the statements on the physical objects.
They opened trading posts and engaged in the " trade :" – a term which, under the Ancien Régime, means any type of trade ( wheat, pepper ivory …), and not necessarily, or only the slave trade, although this " infamous traffic ", as it was called at the end of the 18th century, was indeed at the heart of a new economic order, controlled by powerful companies in privilege.
The Association of Social Anthropologists discourages this use, asserting :" To describe any living group as ' primitive ' or ' Stone Age ' inevitably implies that they are living representatives of some earlier stage of human development that the majority of humankind has left behind.
:" The zodiacal light is nothing but the solar atmosphere, a rare and subtile fluid, either luminous by itself, or made so by the rays of the sun surrounding its globe ; but in a greater quantity, and more extensively, about its equator, than any other.
:" Between 1984 and 1993, New Zealand underwent radical economic reform, moving from what had probably been the most protected, regulated and state-dominated system of any capitalist democracy to an extreme position at the open, competitive, free-market end of the spectrum.
:" I said to him very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting.
:" If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.
Reynolds was less enthusiastic about Raphael's panel paintings, but the slight sentimentality of these made them enormously popular in the 19th century :" We have been familiar with them from childhood onwards, through a far greater mass of reproductions than any other artist in the world has ever had ..." wrote Wölfflin, who was born in 1862, of Raphael's Madonnas.
:" Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading representation of fact, which
:" One of them told and confessed, without any pressure, that she had killed thirty children by bleeding them ... she confessed more, saying she had killed her own son ... Answer me: does it really seem to you that someone who has killed twenty or thirty little children in such a way has done so well that when finally they are accused before the Signoria you should go to their aid and beg mercy for them?
:" Tao can be told but any definition given is not perpetual ; the name can be named but whatever name given is not perpetual.
:" It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence.
:" No man is an Island, intire of it selfe ; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine ; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were ; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde ; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls ; It tolls for thee.

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