Thursday, September 16, 2010

Nothing for Something

Kleenex Silk TreeImage by mrtruffle via FlickrThe highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. – St. Thomas Aquinas




When someone gets something for nothing. Someone else gets nothing for something. – anonymous



Someone has suggested that America’s greatest gifts to civilization are three: cornflakes, Kleenex, and credit. – Louis T. Benezet



When a merchant speaks of sheep he means the hide. – Swiss Proverb



No nation was ever ruined by trade. – Benjamin Franklin



Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. – Abraham Lincoln



Piracy, n: commerce without its folly-swaddles – just as God made it. – Ambrose Bierce




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