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• Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle taught us that money should be durable, divisible, consistent, convenient, and value in itself. It should be durable, which is why wheat isn't money; divisible which is why works of art are not money; consistent which is why real estate isn't money; convenient, which is why lead isn't money; value in itself, which is why paper shouldn't be money. Gold answers to all these criteria.

  Doug Casey

  Art, Real, Years

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• Friedrich Hayek .. seems to have been the first to postulate what is the core of this paper, namely, the idea of memory and perception represented in widely distributed networks of interconnected cortical cells. Subsequently this idea has received theoretical support, however tangential, from the fields of cognitive psychology, connectionism and artificial intelligence. Empirically, it is well supported by the physiological study and neuroimaging of working memory.

  Joaquin Fuster

  Memories, Cells, Ideas

  "Network Memory". Trends in Neuroscience, Vol. 20, Issue 10, October 1997.

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• I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.

  Megyn Kelly

  Reading, Talking, News

  "Four Questions for Megyn Kelly". Interview with Megan Carpentier, www.glamour.com. August 27, 2008.

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• I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Summer, Milk, My Family

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• It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Numbers, Earth, Limits

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.

  Denis Waitley

  Stress, Adversity, Successful

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• Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you.

  Barack Obama

  Book, Writing, Class

  Barack Obama's remarks in a National Address to America's Schoolchildren at the Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 8, 2009.

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• Democrats are channeling their frustration with America's imminent military victory in Afghanistan into hysterical opposition to reasonable national security measures at home. (Incidentally, this ought to prove once and for all what a bunch of paper tigers the Russians are. What were they doing over there for 10 years? It hasn't taken us 10 weeks.)

  Ann Coulter

  Military, Taken, Home

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• The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Thinking, Foreign Policy

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• What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music.

  William S. Burroughs

  Song, Thinking, Play

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• In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are sensitive; you think of all the work you've done, and it breaks your heart, but you learn to shrug it off and to carry on.

  Phil Daniels

  Heart, Thinking, Play

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• You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.

  Barack Obama

  Crazy, Heart, Fate

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.311, Broadway Books

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• Barack Obama, you know has a lot of supporters here in America, but he's very popular internationally. It's quite interesting. This is a true story. It was in the paper. Barack Obama is so popular in the African town where his father was born, they've named a beer after him. That's true. Yeah. So next time you're in Africa, sit back, relax, and enjoy a tall, cold Barackelob Light. Good enough. Clearly not as popular a beer as it used to be.

  Conan O'Brien

  Father, Beer, America

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• My vocation to preach on paper.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Vocation

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2017). “Uncle Tom's Cabin (Third Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.436, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you stay in a house and you go to the bathroom and there is no toilet paper, you can always slide down the banisters. Don't tell me you haven't done it.

  Paul Merton

  House, Done, Toilets

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• I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.

  Hilarie Burton

  Writing, Pals, Mail

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hilarie Burton". Interview with Laura Lane, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects, they do not constitute great innovations in mathematics.... Neither determinants nor matrices have influenced deeply the course of mathematics despite their utility as compact expressions and despite the suggestiveness of matrices as concrete groups for the discernment of general theorems of group theory.

  Morris Kline

  Expression, Innovation, Groups

  Morris Kline (1990). “Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times”, p.795, Oxford University Press

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• Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them.

  Earl Nightingale

  Writing, Night, Next Day

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• My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

  Arthur Compton

  Attitude, Feelings, Firsts

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• It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

  Erica Jong

  Years, Two, White

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Jan 31, 2012

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• Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.

  Erica Jong

  Sweet, Sex, Real

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.89, Penguin

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• These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Perfect, People, Toilets

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Over You, May

  "The Artist's Way: An Interview With Julia Cameron". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. January 23, 2014.

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• Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

  Warren Buffett

  Pieces, Great Business, Papers

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• The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, Saving

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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