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In a basic agricultural society, it's easy enough to swap five chickens for a new dress or to pay a schoolteacher with a goat and three sacks of rice. Barter works less well in a more advanced economy. The logistical challenges of using chickens to buy books on Amazon.com would be formidable.


Charles Wheelan


#economics #science

It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it really is. (Not always. Just sometimes. *Your* mother is absolutely fine, for instance. Probably.)


Jonathan Stroud


#humor #stroud #humor

In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably ran out of water. That's the thing about deserts. Dry." "Indeed. A fascinating analysis. But survivors reaching Hebron report differently: monsters fell upon them in the wastes." "What, fell upon them in a squashed-them kind of way?" "More the leaped-out-and-slew-them kind. (...)


Jonathan Stroud


#humor #humor

Oh, the boots were on the other eight feet now.


Jonathan Stroud


#bartimaeus #bartimaeus-trilogy #humor #humor

Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.


John Barth


#funhouse #girl #love #love

Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.


Bart Yates


#brothers-bishop #nathan-bishop #love

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.


Jonathan Stroud


#intelligence #intelligence

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.


James Otis


#barter #care #clear #day #every

I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.


David O. Russell


#because #class #day #figure #films

Over the course of human history, many items have briefly flourished as means of exchange, only to be demonetarized. Now, we have demonetarized money.


Markham Shaw Pyle


#currency #exchange #money #money






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