"The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Passion Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Giving Quotes

“You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.”
“Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.”
“The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.”
“God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.”
“THOUGHTS are the WORDS supported with the ACTION and both are not independent of each other to produce results.”
“Dusty Rhodes wouldn't win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he'd win for MOST abs.”
“A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.”
“Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.”

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