Bernard Lietaer Quotes
Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less diversity of currency. Therefore, just as you say its very logical that an ecosystem like this will collapse, it's very predictable a monetary system like this will collapse, too. And it hasn't finished collapsing, by the way.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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No gentleman ever has any money.
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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.
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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
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I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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Just because something is working today doesn't mean it will work forever.
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You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.
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Our lives are so dominated by financial concerns - paying the rent - and consumer choices - what sort of detergent to buy at Costco - that larger issues get subsumed into economic ones. Not just social justice, but basic issues of faith and meaning.
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Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less diversity of currency. Therefore, just as you say its very logical that an ecosystem like this will collapse, it's very predictable a monetary system like this will collapse, too. And it hasn't finished collapsing, by the way.
