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• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  Salman Rushdie

  War, People, Watches

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• On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Information, Internet

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• Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

  John Updike

  Wisdom, Time, Ideas

  1992 In the New Yorker, Nov.

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• In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

  Lysander Spooner

  Reality, Gold, Paper

  Lysander Spooner (1873). “A New Banking System: the Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District”, p.21

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• Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

  Alan Cohen

  Kindness, Generosity, Valuable

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• A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

  George Santayana

  Small Changes, Hype, Fraud

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.110, 谷月社

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• Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.

  Kin Hubbard

  Money, Business, Thousand

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• Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.

  John W. Snow

  Practice, Roles, Wells

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

  Virginia Foxx

  Forgiveness, Government, Ideas

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• The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

  Garet Garrett

  Government, Gold, Needs

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• What's happening is there's transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. This comes about because of the monetary system that we have. When you inflate a currency or destroy a currency, the middle class gets wiped out, so the people who get to use the money first, which is created by the Federal Reserve System, benefit, so the money gravitates to the banks and to Wall Street. That's why you have more billionaires than ever before.

  Ron Paul

  Money, Wall, Class

  Republican Presidential debate in Dearborn, Mich., www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2007.

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• For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

  John Burroughs

  Love, Life, Motivational

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.239, Syracuse University Press

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• 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Age, Gold

  1990 The Beauty Myth, ch.1,'The Beauty Myth'.

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• You can only make money if you buy a product, whatever it is - maybe a currency, maybe wheat and maybe something else - at a relatively low price and sell it at a higher price than you buy it at. There's no other way to make money.

  Milton Friedman

  Way, Wheat, Making Money

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• No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say. Because photography has a certain verisimilitude, it has gained a currency as truthful - but photographs have always been convincing lies.

  Joel Sternfeld

  Photography, Jobs, Lying

  "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.

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• It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set up an effective control of currency, credit, production, and distribution – that is to say, an effective ‘dictatorship of prosperity,’ for the whole world. The other sixty odd States would have to join in or accommodate themselves to the over-ruling decisions of these major Powers.

  H. G. Wells

  Russia, Government, Order

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• Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Loss, Government, Suffering

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• It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Country, Government, People

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• The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, People, Sound

  William Jennings Bryan (1896). “The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896”

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• No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, People, Sound

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• My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment.

  Lisa Unger

  Baseball, Stars, Uncles

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.123, Crown

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• For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency union. Our currency has already pegged to the euro since 2002. We don't have an independent monetary policy. We are regulated by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, but we are not able to reap all the profits. Our businesses want to save the transaction costs.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Independent, Cost, Unions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.

  Derek Landy

  Goal, World, Might

  Derek Landy (2013). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Military, Soldier, Battle

  Kevin O'Leary (2011). “Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life”, p.147, Doubleday Canada

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• And in eternity, faith is the only currency that counts.

  Franklin Graham

  Heaven, Eternity

  Franklin Graham (1998). “Living beyond the limits : a life in sync with God”

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