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“A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those who do not create wealth but instead seek to extract wealth from others through inflation, inside information, and market manipulation.”
Source : James Rickards (2014). “The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System”, p.156, Penguin
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“We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention.”
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“And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows, and who stared you in the eyes with cold serenity.”
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“You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.”
Source : Interview with James Landale, news.bbc.co.uk. July 24, 2011. 
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“It's awkward, because sometimes you find new friends that are cooler than your old friends, and then your old friends desperately try to cling on to you even though you sort of hate them by now.”
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“As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.”
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“I think with a comedian, when you get to the point of a greatest hits, it's kind of an acknowledgment that you've been doing stand-up a long time, which not very many people do.”
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“If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.”
Source : William Chillingworth (1820). “The works of William Chillingworth, 1: in three volumes”, p.111
