Currency Quotes - Page 7

• I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

  Claire Messud

  Peculiar, Pennies, Pedestrians

  FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Sep 07, 2014

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• Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.

  Bruce D. Perry

  People, Healthy, Matter

  Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz (2017). “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order to preserve a just and stable society than we needed to cling to the Gold Standard to keep our currency sound. It was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it. Denmark, according to a recent study, is the sanest, healthiest, happiest, most crime-free nation in the world, and by and large the Danes simply ignore the God issue. We should certainly hope that those who believe in belief are wrong, because belief is waning fast, and the props are beginning to buckle.

  Daniel Dennett

  Faith, Believe, Order

  "The folly of pretence" by Daniel Dennett, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2009.

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• Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

  Susan Cheever

  Powerful, Years, Looks

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• The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love.

  Heidi Baker

  Culture, Heal

  Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.143, Charisma Media

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• Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured.

  Mark Skousen

  Rocks, Gold, Steady

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• Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

  Alan Greenspan

  Gold, Paper, Demand

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• That day the U.S. announced that the dollar would be devalued by 10 percent. By switching the yen to a floating exchange rate, the Japanese currency appreciated, and a sufficient realignment in exchange rates was realized. Joint intervention in gold sales to prevent a steep rise in the price of gold, however, was not undertaken. That was a mistake.

  Paul Volcker

  Mistake, Gold, Dollars

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• It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less. [I]f the overriding objective is price stability, we did better with the nineteenth-century gold standard and passive central banks, with currency boards, or even with 'free banking.' The truly unique power of a central bank, after all, is the power to create money, and ultimately the power to create is the power to destroy.

  Paul Volcker

  Unique, Gold, Boards

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• We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency [backed by] gold of which we had none, but for every mark that was issued we required the equivalent of a mark's worth of work done or goods produced ... we laugh at the time our national financiers held the view that the value of a currency is regulated by the gold and securities lying in the vaults of a state bank.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Views, Laughing

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• Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Giving, May, Novelty

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.14

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• Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

  David Cameron

  Successful, Long, Needs

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". Bloomberg speech, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

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• Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Small Changes, Endurance, Wonder

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.

  Helen Hunt

  Real, People, Unattractive

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• What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

  Patrick Marber

  Lying, Trying, World

  Patrick Marber (2004). “Plays 1: Dealer's choice ; After Miss Julie ; Closer”, A&C Black

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• Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.

  Glen Duncan

  Loss

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.143, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Let us serve the world soulfully. The pay we will receive for our service will be in the currency of gratitude, God's gratitude, God the only gratitude.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Gratitude, World, Pay

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• Most governments, not all of them, but most, certainly don't want their citizens using gold. They want them in the currency that they are creating. When they are debasing money, or printing money, they are spending it and they want it to have as much value as possible when they originally spend it. Of course once they spend it, it will lose value for them and everyone else that holds it. But they need demand for their currency. They need as many people as possible holding it and transacting it. The more people that use gold, the harder it makes it.

  Peter Schiff

  People, Gold, Printing

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• Success means controlling your own time. Time is the most important
  currency, but once you spend it, man, its gone.

  Rod Steiger

  Mean, Men, Important

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• I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.

  Clive Owen

  Mirrors, Faces, Ultimate

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• Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it.

  Patti Smith

  Successful, Names, Perfect

  "Patti Smith: Advice to the Young". Interview with Christian Lund, the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, August 24, 2012.

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• The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.

  Jim Carrey

  Graduation Speech, Valuable, Effects

  Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

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• The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern, like my dad... How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out... The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is. Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

  Jim Carrey

  Dad, Fall, Heart

  Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

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• Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.

  Ralph Nader

  Democracy, Denial, Information

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• The greatest threat facing America today
  is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government,
  marked by shameless deficit spending and
  Federal Reserve currency devaluation.
  It is this one-two punch -
  Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow,
  and the Fed printing money to make up the difference -
  that threatens to impoverish us by further
  destroying the value of our dollars.

  Ron Paul

  America, Government, Printing Money

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