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"When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit."
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"People do not become world's richest men by praying but by time conversion into products."

"All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth."

"Tyson- "Cash? Like...green paper?"Percy- "Yeah."Tyson- "Like the kind in duffel bags?"Percy-"Yeah, but we lost those bags days a-g-g--." "Tyson! How did you--"Tyson- "Thought it was a feed bag for Rainbow. Found it floating in sea, but only paper inside. Sorry."

"Wealth is relative. Some people aren't really rich, they just have poor neighbors."

"Love makes you the richest person in the world, no matter how poor you are."

"Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!"

"Sometimes you have to risk or give up some of your financial wealth to have a richer life."
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"Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!"

"The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament."

"Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows."

"The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest."

"In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism."

"In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community."

"Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire."
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