#go

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#chiefly #crises #currency #financial #financial crises

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#accepting #chooses #egoism #exist #far

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#conducted #government #often #principles #reformers

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#available #because #carry #commercial #far

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#currency #enough #gold #never #redeem

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#generally #misinterpreted #modern #more #sense

So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I could skate first, acting would come second. I could say my lines and then go do what I was saying. You don't have to fake it, you're not really acting. ↗

— John Robinson

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I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#been #gospel #gospel artists #gospel songs #had

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#back #billion #go #invented #keep

You know what, I'm probably one of the most blessed people there's ever been, and I thank God for it. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#blessed #ever #god #i #know