It also confirms that the only good scale is human scale and that new land should be used reluctantly and carefully, like the precious and finite commodity it is.

Happiness, joy, accomplishment, achievement . . . are not finite commodities, to be divided up.

You have made too many enemies during your years, and luck is a finite commodity.

You and Cadderly have gathered all of that emotion for yourselves," Rufo replied sarcastically, "as though it is some finite commodity..." "No," Danica retorted, "but Cadderly and I have learned to share in that emotion.

Money is a finite commodity, there's only so much available at any one time.

It is also a finite commodity.

I grant you that it passes from soul to soul, but you must grant me that it is a finite commodity, and that, as it is traded, it leaves some souls unprotected and abandoned.

Peace, security and freedom are not finite commodities - like land, oil or gold - which one state can acquire at another's expense.