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• The value of money has an objective regulator only when it is linked to a real commodity, like gold, itself requiring the cost of human labor to be produced.
  By comparison, the value of inconvertible paper money has no objective regulator, its marginal cost of production being nearly zero....
• Every man has a price.
• Praise is like gold - its value is derived from its scarcity.
• A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. -- Oscar Wilde
• WILDE's definition of a cynic. A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
• Creative people all come in and want their stuff printed on gold leaf. -- Jim Shoote
• Every man has his price. Every price has its man.
• Every purchase has its price.