#certificate

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books. ↗

— Erik Larson

#bookstore #certificate #choose #gift #give

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#awards #certificates #get #i #many

When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#cannot #certificates #checks #commodities #countries

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name. ↗

— Rickey Henderson

#birth certificate #certificate #first #henley #name

If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.' ↗

— Luke Scott

#birth #birth certificate #born #cabinet #certificate

I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them. ↗

— Henry Hudson

#arrive #certificate #crew #diligence #force

Actual message in letter I mailed: Congrats on getting married! Here’s a hundred-dollar gift certificate to Amazon.com. You could buy something practical, or you could buy 101 copies of my .99 cents ebook. Just kidding—I didn’t mean to imply that buying 101 copies of my book was impractical. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#books #gift-certificate #impractical #insightful #letter