"The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency."

-- Arnon Grunberg

#Gold Quotes #Bitcoin Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.”
“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”

Source : "A Bend in the River". Book by V. S. Naipaul, May 1979.
“I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.”

Source : "Living on Earth: Helping the Prez, Greening the Rez". Interview with Steve Curwood, www.organicconsumers.org. January 16, 2009.
“The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is full of it and lies low over the earth, heavy and dense. Even the sea is wetter than usual!”
“The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory....”
“When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.”
“Everything you encounter is your life.”
“A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.”

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