"The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes."

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

Alfred Marshall

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“Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security.”

Source : "Obama's End Goal: World Without Nuclear Weapons". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. April 13, 2010.
“How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town? It's the age-old thing - it's such a clichÃ© - but why worry about things you have no control over? What I can do is try to get this club to continue to play well. That's all I can do.”
“When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.”
“Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero.”
“I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.”
“We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.”
“You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.”
“The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.”

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