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"Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure."
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"The value of money is subjective, depending on age. At the age of one, one multiplies the actual sum by 145,000, making one pound seem like 145,000 pounds to a one-year-old. At seven " Bertie's age " the multiplier is 24, so that five pounds seems like 120 pounds. At the age of twenty four, five pounds is five pounds; at forty five it is divided by 5, so that it seems like one pound and one pound seems like twenty pence. (All figures courtesy of Scottish Government Advice Leaflet: Handling your Money.)"
"You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters."
"As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system."
"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."
"Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!"
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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."
"It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles."
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