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• It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

  Colin Wilson

  Responsibility, Ideas, Discipline

  "The Encyclopedia of Modern Murder 1962-1983" by Colin Wilson, "Introductory Essay", (p. xx), 1983.

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• A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages propensities destructive to its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, War, Evil

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1853). “Speeches in the convention to amend the constitution of Massachusetts ; Speeches in Congress”, p.394

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• The US dollar is our currency but your problem.

  John Connolly

  Dollars, Investing, Problem

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• Thought is your only currency!

  Mark Victor Hansen

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• The only currency still used as a store of value after 5000 years is gold

  Martin Truex Jr.

  Years, Gold, Used

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• Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives.

  Suze Orman

  Judging, Measurement

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• Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Instinct, Social, Reciprocity

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.47, Basic Books

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• In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one's sleeves and helping to change them.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Order, Wish

  Ingrid Newkirk (2009). “The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights: Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble”, p.21, Macmillan

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• Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

  David Suzuki

  Economy, Biosphere, Force

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• We in the Congress have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect the value of the dollar and to understand why it is so important to the economy that a central bank not be given the unbelievable power of inflating a currency at will and pretending that it knows how to fine-tune an economy through this counterfeit system of money.

  Ron Paul

  Important, Tunes, Dollars

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• In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.

  Roger Scruton

  Artist, Kitsch, Way

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• The Chinese are the greatest that ever came about, they are the greatest currency manipulators ever.

  Donald Trump

  Chinese, Manipulator

  Source: time.com

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• The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.

  Laurence Sterne

  Scandal, Austin, Stories

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself”

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• Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wise, Wisdom, Pride

  Eric Hoffer (1979). “Before the Sabbath”, Harpercollins

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• In 88 poor countries for which we have data, in each and every one of the 88, the PPP for food shows that poor people can buy less food than you would expect from the PPP that the World Bank is using. The reason for this is obvious on reflection. It has to do with the fact that most foodstuffs are tradable commodities: basic foodstuffs, such as rice, flour and beans, can easily be conveyed across national borders and their prices will therefore roughly mirror the exchange rates among currencies.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Reflection, Mirrors

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.

  Randy Alcorn

  World, Return, Christ

  Randy Alcorn (2013). “The Law of Rewards: Giving what you can't keep to gain what you can't lose.”, p.30, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Mean, Europe, Situation

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• The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust... you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it's so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.

  Jason Calacanis

  Funny, Thoughtful, Care

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• I always have my passport on me, as well as two currencies.

  Jennifer Morrison

  Two, Passports, Wells

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

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• China has made important contribution to the world economy in terms of total economic output and trade, and the RMB has played a role in the world economic development. But making the RMB an international currency will be a fairly long process.

  Hu Jintao

  Long, Important, Roles

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• The Federal Reserve was not founded to bail out Bear Stearns or a few hedge funds. It was founded to keep a stable currency and maintain its value.

  Jim Rogers

  Bail, Bears, Financial

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• Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

  Morley Safer

  Arrogance, Use, Rooms

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• So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Balance, Payment, Deficit

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• It's common to think things will never happen where you are-never in Cambridge, never in New York, never in Seattle-that sort of thing, whatever it is, never happens here, not in our community. Then it happens, right in front of you, and you realize you were blind to it, that you forgot that intolerance and zealotry and viciousness are human currency everywhere, and it takes your breath away.

  Mike Daisey

  New York, Thinking, Community

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• Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.

  Eli Broad

  Ideas

  "I Am American Business" Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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