Robert C. Solomon famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.
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Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
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Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.
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What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.
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All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.
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If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.
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Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.
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The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.
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Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.
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Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.
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The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.
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Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.
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There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.
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The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.
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The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.
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Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.
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Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.
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There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.
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There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.
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Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]
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Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.
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Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
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Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.
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Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.
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Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.
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The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.
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Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.
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We also confuse trust with familiarity.
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Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.
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Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.
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Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.
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So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.
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True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.
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In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe.
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Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.
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On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.
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