"When depreciated, mutilated, or debased coinage (or currency) is in concurrent circulation with money of high value in terms of precious metals, the good money automatically disappears."

-- Thomas Gresham

#Currency Quotes #Disappear Quotes #Term Quotes

“The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.”

Source : "Economist says U.S. inequality reaching "spectacular" heights". Interview with Alain Sherter, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2014.
“The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.”
“I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.”
“It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”
“For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.”
“Donâ€™t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And donâ€™t make stuff because you want to get famous - because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people - and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.”
“That ugly freak has spent so much time in my head, I should be charging him rent." -Four”

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