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• Praise is like gold - its value is derived from its scarcity.
• 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....
• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
  -- Samuel Butle...
• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income.
  -- Samuel Butler, "Notebook...
• Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.
  Samuel Butler (1835-1902)...
• Miracle owes its origin to the negation of thought.