"Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money."

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Source : Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

Alfred Marshall

#Country Quotes #Money Quotes #Gold Quotes

“I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.”
“Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us the earth. He is not waiting in the next room, ready to fix it for us if we ruin it. If we do not care for it, no one will. On other worlds, other races of men perhaps do better than we have done. He cares for us, but he does not control what we do.”
“The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.”

Source : Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”
“If there would not have been a Waco, I would have put down roots somewhere and not been so unsettled with the fact that my government ... was a threat to me. Everything that Waco implies was on the forefront of my thoughts. That sort of guided my path for the next couple of years.”
“Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.”
“Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency.”
“Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.”
“Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind--that is, without our awareness,”

Source : Gerald Zaltman (2003). “How Customers Think: Essential Insights Into the Mind of the Market”, p.40, Harvard Business Press

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