John Robinson

(98 votes)   I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities.

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(38 votes)   I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities.

John Robinson
1576-1625, American Clergyman

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(30 votes)   Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

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(27 votes)   All the ideals which men generally think are realities, you have learned to see through; you have learned that they are your ideals.

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(26 votes)   According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

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(26 votes)   At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

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(16 votes)   But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

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(16 votes)   Gold is used to a certain extent; but the great bulk of the money in use is not gold but promissory notes, called bank notes - paper money, in short.

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(15 votes)   However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

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(14 votes)   Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.

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(13 votes)   In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

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(13 votes)   In the past, when gold and silver were the only money, the hire of gold and silver was on the same footing as that of any other commodity.

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(12 votes)   It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

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(11 votes)   Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

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(11 votes)   Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.

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