Circulation Quotes

• The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

  James Madison

  Confidence, Money, Self Esteem

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.538

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• Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

  Louis Menand

  Coins, Smooth

  "Notable Quotables". www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2007.

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• A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Lying, Book

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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• Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

  Charles Horace Mayo

  Heart, Knowledge, Science

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• We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

  Robert Fortune

  Sap, Woods, Way

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.85

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• Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

  A. S. Byatt

  Blood, Human Nature, Humans

  "Best Story; Narrate Or Die" by A.S. Byatt, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.

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• There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Gold, Enough, Currency

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• All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

  John Adams

  Nature, Money, Ignorance

  John Adams' Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. August 23, 1787.

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• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Blood, Hygiene, People

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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• Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

  Guy Debord

  Tourism, Leisure, Consumption

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.85, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Sex, Exercise

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• Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

  Sydney Smith

  Mistake, Errors, Alliances

  Rev. Sydney Smith (1855). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy”, p.16

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• I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

  James Stockdale

  Pain, Blood, Giving

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• People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  People, Realizing, Globalization

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• Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

  David Talbot

  News Stories, Years, Marketing

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• The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down

  Geraldo Rivera

  Lying, Media, Down And

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• What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is, stuck. It's been without circulation for twenty-four hours. It's pretty well gone.

  Aron Ralston

  Rocks, Hands, Gone

  "127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place". Book by Aron Ralston, September 7, 2004.

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• The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.

  Jane Gardam

  Novelists, Ugly, Tribes

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• The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Cities, World, Revolution

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.85, Verso

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• I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained.

  John Aubrey

  Blood, Cracks, Vulgar

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• Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Money, Vanity, Criticism

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• Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity.

  Ray Dalio

  Running, Moving, Opportunity

  "Mastering the Machine" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. July 25, 2011.

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• Journalism is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting. I was a judge in some award contest recently, and the stuff that is being done by major newspapers, and local, regional papers around the country, is great. Newspapers play an amazing role in our society, and I still think they are important. I'm sorry newspaper circulation is down. Ultimately, the importance of newspapers can't be replaced.

  Seymour Hersh

  Country, Sorry, Thinking

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.

  Marlene Dumas

  Time, Art, Light

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• Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

  James Madison

  No Confidence, Property, Ifs

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.538

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