Quotes with currency

  • Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

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  • John Burroughs 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
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • George Santayana 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
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bill Gross Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • René Daumal Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Bjork Declare independence
    Don't let them do that to you
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    Start your own currency
    Make your own stamp
    Protect your language
    Songs Declare Independence, from Volta (2007)
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Bill Gross Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Information is the currency of democracy.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Andrew Jackson Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Alan Cohen Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • John Updike Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Ben Bernanke The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Barbara Amiel The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Donald Trump There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship. We pledge allegiance to one flag, and that flag is the American flag.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Benjamin Harrison There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.
    State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Bill Frist This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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