Alan Cohen
Author
"Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency."
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Currency
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Jim Carrey
Actor, Comedian
"Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth."
Jim Carrey
Actor, Comedian
"The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is."
Benjamin Harrison
Politician
"There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts."
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"I always have my passport on me, as well as two currencies."
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"I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier."
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"Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life."
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"Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative."
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"And in eternity, faith is the only currency that counts."
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"Legacy is greater than currency."
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"The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear."
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"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
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"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."
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"Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day."
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"All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market."
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"The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice."
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"Secrets are the currency of intimacy"
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"Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree."
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"If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency."
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"The dollar is the reserve currency of the world."
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"We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency."
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"I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency."
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"There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange"
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"Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait."
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