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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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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

Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#controls #could #either #government #hardly

Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#again #curtis #earlier #groups #institutes

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#area #areas #christianity #especially #even

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#american revolution #branch #cincinnati #george #george washington

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#duller #earth #london #ours #rainy

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#autonomy #between #characterized #conflict #country

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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