Currency Quotes - Page 13

• In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Art, Real, Lovely

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.112, A&C Black

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• The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Government, People

  "Why Gold?". www.newyorker.com. November 29, 2004.

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• Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Money, Vanity, Giving

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• China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals.

  Henry Paulson

  Needs, Fundamentals, Economic

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• Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Small Changes, Endurance, Wonder

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and our currency's going to have an impact on our standard of living and affect every family in this country, and over time, our international competitiveness.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, Impact, Debt

  "Huntsman Hawkish on Ryan Budget, Dovish on Afghanistan & Libya". "Good Morning America" with George Stephanopoulos, www.weeklystandard.com. May 20, 2011.

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• The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

  Robert Harris

  Life Is

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• If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

  Ray Dalio

  Country, Decline, Given

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• Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.

  Kris Carr

  Thinking, People, Magic

  "How to Do Less and Live More" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2013.

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• If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Suffering, Poor, Ifs

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• Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love You, Suffering, Poor

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.24, A&C Black

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• The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency.

  Arnon Grunberg

  Gold, Bitcoin, Firsts

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• The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency museums.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Museums, Long, Gold

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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• The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground.

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes

  Thinking, Oil, Cages

  "Petroleum joyride almost over?". www.wired.com. May 29, 2005.

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• Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress... Our only safety is in pursuing a steady course of firm restriction - and I have no doubt that such a course will ultimately lead to restoration of the currency and the re-charter of the bank.

  Nicholas Biddle

  Safety, Doubt, Suffering

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• Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in recent years, but has been studiously ignored by all our purveyors of conventional economic wisdom. That is because we have been persuaded, against logic, and moral sense, that the institution that most needs our support these days is not society, nor the human community, but the global corporation.

  Eric Kierans

  Years, Support, Community

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• The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933.

  Milton Friedman

  Great Depression, Federal Reserve, Circulation

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• By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Long, People

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• Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

  George Washington

  Science, Important, United States

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.9

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• Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people.

  David Korten

  Reality, People, Community

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• By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds in their own currency never default, because they can always print money. Their currency may depreciate, but the risk of default is absent.

  George Soros

  Country, Government, Creating

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• Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

  Jean Houston

  Writing, Growth, Stories

  Jean Houston (1987). “The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology”, Tarcher

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• Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a bag, but their supply of sugar is not the amount in the bag. When you come to a grocer, he has sugar in abundance. But he sees how much money you have brought and gives accordingly. Your currency on this Path is resolution and faith, and you are taught according to your resolution and faith. When you come seeking sugar, they examine your bag to see what its capacity is; then they measure out accordingly.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Rain, Islamic

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• Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only one end in view: to show it off, to put into our accounts to entertain others with it, as though it were merely counters, useful for totting up and producing statements, but having no other use or currency. 'Apud alios loqui didicerunt, non ipsi secum' [They have learned how to talk with others, not with themselves]

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Hands, Views

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Dollars, World, Reserves

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