Carl Menger Quotes
Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there's a whole other world that comes with it. It's a very small percent that's difficult, stalker-like, or annoying. Most people are just so gracious and so nice. As cheesy as it sounds, that's the thing that really keeps you going.
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Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
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Are you in my dream too?
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy. And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
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You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.
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For me and my husband, one of my biggest peeves is that I can't stand for an old friend or a woman to walk in the room and just run up and speak to my husband, but they don't talk to me.
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I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.
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Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.
