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Quotes About Exchange

An effective network is not a unidirectional conduit of benefits; it thrives on mutual exchange and support.
~ James Scott
To see memory as the essence of life came naturally to Lincoln," Robert Bruce observes, for he was a man who "seemed to live most intensely through the process of thought, the expression of thought, and the exchange of thought with others.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
I know. Aha, Oho, and every other bloody ejaculation. Let's take it as read. You're delirious at the idea of manhandling me and can't wait to start. I in turn may say I find your arrival offensive and your presence blasphemous, thus concluding the exchange of civilities and letting us get out of here. If there's anything novel or extra you want to add, you can think of it on the way home.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
isn't it sometimes more expensive to accept favours than it is to buy them?" He
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Good," said Arthur. "See?" said Ford. "No," said Arthur.
~ Douglas Adams
tutta quanta la stanza era in ogni suo punto ugualmente piena di tazzine sporche, di scarpe e di posacenere pieni che si scambiavano ormai i ruoli l'uno con l'altro.
~ Douglas Adams
A true lover must know how to receive as well as to give.
~ Douglas Carlton Abrams
Zero-sum games deal with resources that neither increase nor decrease in amount—they only shift from one player to the other.
~ Douglas Preston
Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
~ Aesop
What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.
~ Agatha Christie
Take what you want, says God, but pay for it
~ Agatha Christie
Now we can talk," said Poirot. "When I say that, I mean, really, that I shall talk.
~ Agatha Christie
The fact that you can sit down and write something, and that then it passes direct from you to someone else, is a much happier and more natural feeling than handing out cheques or things of that kind.
~ Agatha Christie
Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.
~ Agatha Christie
They exchanged a quick smile - a brief recognition of the fact that each was glad of the other's presence
~ Agatha Christie
There is always an upload for a download.
~ Ahmad F. Hedayat
It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
~ Aimee Bender
Only trying to make conversation, friend.' 'Don't bother - it's an overrated activity at the best of times.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I have some friends who have been living in the political world for some time now. It's a lot of robbing Peter to pay Paul. If you've got something you want, and that person who has it wants something in return, it quite literally becomes your job to find whatever it is that they want.
~ Reid Scott
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
~ Walid Jumblatt
We're moving into an era when things are dematerialised and much more holographic. Floating above the physical world and the geographic map, there's another landscape that's constantly changing - something like a cloud - of communication, information, exchange and commerce.
~ Doug Aitken
We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
~ Ina May Gaskin
Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me.
~ J. J. Cale