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• Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

  Bill Keller

  Mean, Movement, Ends

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• We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Shopping, Adults

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• Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists of transactions between the organization and its environment.

  Daniel Katz

  Organization, Energy, Input

  Daniel Katz, Robert L. Kahn (1978). “The Social Psychology of Organizations”, Wiley

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• When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Buying, Common

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• The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

  Noah Webster

  Truth, Men, Social

  Noah Webster (1834). “Value of the Bible and Excellence of the Christian Religion: For the Use of Families and Schools”, p.177

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• You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Want, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.

  Henry Paulson

  Important, Typical, Settling

  Speech on the "Blueprint for Regulatory Reform", www.cnbc.com. March 31, 2008.

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• The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will… return the benefit and reciprocate...

  Michael Nesmith

  Civilization, People, Thieves

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Powerful, Creating, Cost

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• Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Art, People

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.261, Souvenir Press

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• When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.

  Jennifer Egan

  Missing, Everyday, Alive

  "Dealing with the Dead" by Jennifer Egan, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Party, Two, Cynical

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.160, Diversion Books

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• Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in which two contracting parties always both gain; consequently, society is an uninterrupted succession of advantages, unceasingly renewed for all its members.

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy

  Philosophy, Party, Two

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• Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

  Irving Fisher

  Historical, Promise, Banking

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• Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

  Victor Hugo

  Morning, Light, Labyrinth

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• Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.

  Edouard Seguin

  Men, Two, Order

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• It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Love, Hurt, Philosophy

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Aug 27, 2013

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• By saying that someone becomes the owner of something, we are referring to a market transaction, while by saying that something is a good belonging to someone, we emphasize the fact that it has been incorporated into the world of someone, of which it has become an integral part.

  Michel Callon

  World, Facts, Owners

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• We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Fall, Passion

  William Hazlitt (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Mind, Clients

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Eye, Skins, Handwriting

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come with a buket. He sent her back with a spring of living water. She had come as a reject. He sent her back being accepted by God Himself. She came wounded. He sent her back whole. She came laden with questions. He sent her back as a source for answers. She came living a life of quiet desperation. She ran back overflowing with hope. The disciples missed it all. It was lunchtime for them.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Spring, Real, Water

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• I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ideas, Action, Contemplation

  Honore De Balzac (2011). “Louis Lambert”, p.75, The Floating Press

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• Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Holy Places, Morality

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Pain, Keys, Balance

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