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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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"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."
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"Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold."
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"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."
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"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."

"You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' boo me."

"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"
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"The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest."

"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."

"It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles."

"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."

"According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek."

"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."

"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."

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