Thought I'd start myself a little quotation area that I'll be updating as I run across more that mean something to me.
And, dearest readers, I hope you'll get something out of them as well!
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But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. —Deuteronomy 8:18
"Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest." ~Mason Cooley
"When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on." ~Mason Cooley
""Money talks" because money is a metaphor, a transfer, and a bridge. Like words and language, money is a storehouse of communally achieved work, skill, and experience. Money, however, is also a specialist technology like writing; and as writing intensifies the visual aspect of speech and order, and as the clock visually separates time from space, so money separates work from the other social functions. Even today money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber. As a vast social metaphor, bridge, or translator, money—like writing—speeds up exchange and tightens the bonds of interdependence in any community. It gives great spatial expansion and control to political organizations, just as writing does, or the calendar." ~Marshall McLuhan
A Whiff of Ancient Wisdom
September 3rd, 2006 at 01:10 pm
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Glad to know I'm not the only one who hides 'stuff' when the family comes. Thankfully I have a basement that the visitors don't frequent!