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The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

Charles Eisenstein

Community, Scarcity, Isolation

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I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects

Napoleon Hill

Doe, Benefits

Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.51, Lulu.com

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As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God.

Samuel

Strong, Children, School

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Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we surrender our sense of human dignity, our judgement, or moral and aesthetic sense for pride. If there is pride in being free, we are ready to die for liberty. If there is pride to be derived from an identification with a leader, we grovel in the dust before a Napoléon, Hitler or Stalin and are ready to die for him. If there is a distinction in suffering we search for martyrdom as for hidden treasure.

Eric Hoffer

Pride, Self, Dust

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There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims ... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public.

Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

Party, Reality, Government

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Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty.

Mindy Grossman

Loyalty, Different, World

"Q&A With Mindy Grossman". Interview with Jordan Saniuk, footwearnews.com. January 11, 2010.

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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

Patrick Collison

Advertising Business, Wells, Devices

"How Stripe Plans To Make Mobile Pay" by Owen Thomas, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2013.

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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

Barbara Kingsolver

Prayer

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To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

Arthur Koestler

Pieces, Honest, Silver

Arthur Koestler (1955). “Darkness at noon”

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Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label "Senator Sleaze." D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. "There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues," he said.

William Greider

New York, Punishment, Grace

William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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Children, temples are places where, at least for a short while, the remembrance of God is kindled in our hearts which otherwise are totally immersed in worldly transactions.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Spiritual, Children, Heart

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Writing a diary every evening before going to bed is a good habit. We can record in the diary how much time we have devoted to our spiritual practice. The diary should be written in a way that helps us see our mistakes and correct them. It should not be a mere document of other peoples' faults or our daily transactions.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Spiritual, Mistake, Writing

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No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.

John Stossel

Winning, Thinking, Happens

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We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to rest.

Kenneth Lay

Opportunity, Looks, Concern

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Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.

David Graeber

Party, Expectations, Done

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?

R. D. Laing

Giving, Our Actions, Who We Are

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The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social order.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Taken, Mean, Order

"The Principle of Federation". Book by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1863.

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Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

Herman Melville

Funeral, Jokes

Herman Melville (2016). “Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile and Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter”, p.51, Courier Dover Publications

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... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.

Virginia Woolf

Nice, Two, Age

Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.

Anna Quindlen

Strong, Giving, Parent

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I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Mean, Thinking, Aggravation

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It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.

Merle Shain

Strong, Taken, Mean

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Economic transactions between national bodies who are at the same time the supreme judges of their own behavior, who bow to no superior law, and whose representatives cannot be bound by any considerations but the immediate interest of their respective nations, must end in clashes of power.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Law, Judging, Bows

"The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.

John Stuart Mill

Country, Independent, Peculiar

John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.251, VM eBooks

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Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for atomic nuclei, it is important to be able to recognize which type of reactivity any given reagent exhibits.

Christopher Kelk Ingold

Important, Nucleus, Able

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