"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented."

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Josiah Stamp

#Hands Quotes #Historical Quotes #Banking Quotes

“Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement -Â that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.”
“I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.”
“My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixtyeight. My one sister is a motorcycle freak, my other sister is a Holy Roller evangelist and my brother is running for President. Iâ€™m the only sane one in the family.”
“Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.”
“A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.”
“At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer.”
“Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know , Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day Which I, before I was, had lived in God 's own way.”

Source : "Cherubinischer Wandersmann". Book by Angelus Silesius (1657) translated by Julia Bilger, 1944.
“Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them.”

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