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"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."
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"You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful."
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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."
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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."
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"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water."
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"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."
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"Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired."
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"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."
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"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."
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"The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold."
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"I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude."
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"There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense."
Sense
"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."
Community
"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."
Wealth
"Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price."
Money
"In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism."
Philosophy
"Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure."
Finance
"The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit."
Business
"But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals."
Knowledge
"Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone."
Thought
"It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty."
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