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Quotes About Exchange

The given - forgive me - what is marketable, is only given - forgive me - is only sold in and through language. [...] Triumphant, the word redeems anything that could lend taste or aroma and transubstantiates it into something seen and read and heard, the channels that are peculiar to it. This - what you eat and drink - is the body and blood of the word. Here - where you buy it - lies the grave of bread and wine, body and blood, dead and resuscitated as messages.
~ Michel Serres
AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.
~ Michelangelo
You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have.
~ Unknown
All people, situations, circumstances and everything around us are to be used. But don't abuse. And as you have a right on all creation for you to use, be ready to be used too. This universe flourishes on energy exchange on all levels. Let sharing of energy be optimally utilized, get MickeyMized.
~ Unknown
From pro's and con's they fell to a warmer way of disputing.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Paid him in his own coin.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Love is dialougue, not monolougue
~ Unknown
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
~ Unknown
She's sorting out our library, her book, my book, and now and again we exchange a touch for old times
~ Unknown
The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
~ Milton Friedman
He tried to press the machine into my hands, but I stepped back. He was getting too close, and besides, I didn't know what this meant. Was he trying to sell me the machine? Was he giving it to me? I had heard that in America, if a girl accepted a ring from a boy, it meant she would marry him. What about accepting a tape-playing machine? Did it mean I might have to dance with him?
~ Unknown
Securities Exchange Company
~ Mitchell Zuckoff
So the city emerges as man's ultimate attempt to become manmade, born from himself rather than from Mother Nature. The feeling of self-sufficiency he achieves through the city is largely abstract and spurious: The sources of our biological lives remain the same as they always were—they come from Matter and Land. But city-man maintains contact with his natural life-sources not through immediate body experience, but through an artificial medium of exchange: money.
~ Unknown
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Lying in the grass girl and boy Eating oranges, exchanging kisses like waves exchanging whiteness. Lying on the beach girl and boy. Eating apples, exchanging kisses like clouds exchanging whiteness. Lying underground girl and boy. Saying nothing, never kissing exchanging silence for silence.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
Social power is the power over nature, the living standards achieved by men in mutual exchange. State power, as we have seen, is the coercive and parasitic seizure of this production—a draining of the fruits of society for the benefit of nonproductive (actually antiproductive) rulers.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
Exchange is the lifeblood, not only of our economy, but of civilization itself.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
individuals. Social power is the power over nature, the living standards achieved by men in mutual exchange. State power, as we have seen, is the coercive and parasitic seizure of this production—a draining of the fruits of society for the benefit of nonproductive (actually antiproductive) rulers.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
La Libertad es el derecho natural, para todo individuo, de disponer de si mismo y de lo que ha adquirido ya sea por medio de la transformación, intercambio o la donación. La Libertad y el derecho a la propiedad son, pues, indisociables. Todo atentado a la propiedad es un atentado a la libertad .
~ Murray N. Rothbard
While liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or prohibit that trade. And yet both the consenting sexual activity and the trade are similar expressions of liberty in action.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
People are sold their own weaknesses, their sweets, on the market and the exchange of vices, instincts and internal flaws.
~ Unknown
The exchange rate of the currencies of human weakness is growing, on the stock exchange it is self-interest, people are becoming weaker mentally and spiritually.
~ Unknown
As a realist, you must give me the watch and not the time.
~ Unknown