- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exchanging Quotes
What we trade, and what it reveals.
Exchange isn't only about assets or money, it's how ideas, trust, and connection pass between people. These quotes explore that theme. See more on our Art page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Authorities
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- Nov 07, 2020
The blockchain is custom-made for decentralizing trust and exchanging assets without central intermediaries. With the decentralization of trust, we will be able to exchange anything we own and challenge existing trusted authorities and custodians that typically held the keys to accessing our assets or verifying their authenticity.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.
- Far East
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back when we were exchanging each other's clothes, staying at each other's houses. That was before I had anything.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging ideas and practices is self-evidently one of the most productive, fascinating aspects of modern urban life.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm constantly exchanging ideas with new artists. Honestly, with Jay-Z, our only interaction was a brief hello after I signed.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020