Seigneurage Quotes

#1. Gold is gold everywhere, fungible and indifferent. But when a disk of gold is stamped by a coiner with certain pompous words and the picture of a King, it takes on added value
seigneurage. It has that value only in that people believe that it does
it is a shared phant'sy.

Neal Stephenson

#2. Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

Alice Munro

#4. What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

Edmund Waller

#5. I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

Steve Martin

#6. Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

Peter McWilliams

#7. Until then she hadn't considered that there was a trade off, that she might not fit anymore in places where she'd been comfortable.

Jodi Picoult

#8. You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.

Saul Bellow

#9. We don't analyze our lyrics.

Santiago Durango

#10. It's easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it's hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees.

Tony Fadell

#11. Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. We create excuses that stand between us and other people; excuses that separate us from the happiness and the prospects these people can present.

Farshad Asl

#13. DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

James D. Watson

#14. See your heart, and of this burning heart, your heart obediently eats. Dante

Isabelle Livingstone

#15. Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the "cojones" to carry our argument to the people.

Nick Clegg