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“Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.”

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Book:Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues

Source: Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues

“Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?”

Thinking Knows Believe Real Hands Money Mines Promise Bills Don't Believe Checks Coins

Author:Joanne Greenberg

“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.”

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Book:Save Me the Waltz: A Novel

Source: Save Me the Waltz: A Novel

“Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.”

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Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?”

Light Happens Nations Easy Money Cities Leader Promise Lows Optimism Shining Notion Tolerance Hills Catastrophe Doom Gloom Pending Hope And Change Doom And Gloom

Author:Kathleen Parker

“I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money.”

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Author:Allan Boesak

“If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.”

“... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.”

“Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.”

Knows Men Money Land Politician Promise Tired Profit Corruption Hearing Betray Sheep Betrayed Crooked Working Man Crooked Politicians

Author:Ray Davies