#notes

When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#cannot #certificates #checks #commodities #countries

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away. ↗

— Ted Rall

#analysis #away #direct #i #like

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books. ↗

— Simon Raven

#another #books #boring #concluded #drudgery

I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.' ↗

— Jason Ritter

#am #dad #doing #had #i

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#behind #diminished #follows #gold #notes

In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#charge #community #continual #his way #interest

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#important #notes #only #them

I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets. ↗

— Robin Trower

#bend #frets #hands #i #notes

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. ↗

— Louis Armstrong

#got #notes #other #you #yourself

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. ↗

— Frederic Chopin

#after #art #crowning #emerges #final