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• Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Children, War, Holiday

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• there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Truth, Honesty

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.5.

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• The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Marriage, Brother, Father

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• A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.

  Peter Dicken

  Real, Past, Essentials

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.469, SAGE

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• Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.

  John Updike

  Writing, People, Personality

  "Remembering John Updike, Literary Legend". www.npr.org. January 28, 2009.

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• Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, Erosion, Ideas

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• Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

  Harold Pinter

  Art, Giving, Frozen

  Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

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• Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which he is not involved... The fact is that God does not need to be invited into certain departments of life, and kept out of others. He is everywhere, all through life and in every activity of life. He hears not only the words that are spoken in his name; he hears all words; and there cannot be any such thing as a form of words which evades bringing God into any transaction. We will regard all promises as sacred if we remember that all promises are made in the presence of God.

  William Barclay

  Names, Promise, Doe

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• No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.

  Brigham Young

  Inspiring, Education, Adversity

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• A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification. It makes the transactions of the gospel basically juridical. In the Roman view, justification and sanctification are a seamless fabric. It is more than a question of God simply seeing us through a legal scrim of Christ's righteousness. Righteousness actually begins to transform us.

  Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

  Views, Grace, Doctrine

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• Literally, when you wake up at 9 o'clock in the morning in Havana you don't know where you'll be at noon. But it's a safe guess that you'll either be married, arrested, or in the midst of some incredible transaction where somebody is stealing your passport or paying you in Dominican pesos for it, or whatever. It's a wild place.

  Pico Iyer

  Morning, Wild Places, Safe

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

  Noam Chomsky

  Impact, Environment, Externalities

  "Noam Chomsky slams Canada's shale gas energy plans" by Martin Lukacs, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2013.

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• In fact, a large part of what we think of as economic activity is designed to accomplish what high transaction costs would otherwise prevent or to reduce transaction costs so that individuals can negotiate freely and we can take advantage of that diffused knowledge of which Friedrich Hayek has told us.

  Ronald Coase

  Thinking, Cost, Facts

  "The Institutional Structure of Production". Ronald Coase's Nobel Memorial Prize Lecture published in Ronald Coase "Essays on Economics and Economists" (p. 9), May 2, 1994.

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• In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other. Everything comes from a great distance through anonymous and invisible transactions. We've taken that to be a virtue, but it's as much a curse. Americans are not very satisfied with their lives, and the loss of community is part of that.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Distance, Taken

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• The real success story of branding in recent decades has been the way in which companies have used their brands to turn the satisfaction of complex and even spiritual needs into commercial transactions.

  Simon Anholt

  Spiritual, Real, Needs

  Simon Anholt (2006). “Brand New Justice”, p.5, Routledge

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• A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a big complicated system through barter, through converting one commodity into another. You need a monetary system to operate. And the instability in that monetary system is devastating to the performance of the economy.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Needs, Complicated

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You must accept responsibility for your actions. This doesn't include reactions, interactions or transactions if you're thinkin' loophole.

  Dane Cook

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Action

  Twitter post from May 30, 2012

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• Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Thinking, Abuse

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• I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.

  Geoff Capes

  Broken, Details, Paper

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Business Deals, Games

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• If the relationship between you and your money is harmonious, regardless of how much you have, your financial transactions will be harmonious as well.

  Suze Orman

  Financial, Wells, Harmonious

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• The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

  Kevin Drew

  Singing, Sound, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I do not know whether the Government will be able to get ready to conduct this transaction together with the management of Rosneft itself, whether the appropriate strategic investors will be found. And I believe it is about such investors that we should talk. But we are getting ready, and it is in the current year that we are planning to do this.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Years, Government

  Source: thesaker.is

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• I will make individual deals with individuals countries. No longer will we enter into these massive transactions with many countries that are thousands of pages long and which no one from America even reads or understands.

  Donald Trump

  Country, America, Long

  Source: time.com

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• In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you sell a property and make a capital gain, you simply turn around and buy a new property. The gain is not taxed. It's called "preserving your capital investment" - which goes up and up in value with each transaction.

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Pay, Gains

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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