#pap

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. ↗

— Ron Paul

#federal-reserve #fiat #fiat-money #paper-money #war

The Everything and Nothing of Money The Legacy Letters By Carew Papritz Summer, and you are the first man and the first woman to kiss. The first to know the exacting, steeling pain of a broken heart. The first to know everything about the whole cascading universe of gods and stars and lunacy and tenderness. Thus you become the first man and woman to know love. And God help you, for you are now the first man and woman in the world. ↗

— Carew Papritz

#the-legacy-letters #love

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them. Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --' Hugh: 'Pained? ↗

— Emma Thompson

#movie-stars #movies #paparazzi #repartee #wit

Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth." "But you are not a lady, Jessamine---," Charlotte began. "Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jessamine-lovelace #journalism #newspapers #will-herondale #society

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person. ↗

— John Green

#person

The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. ↗

— John Green

#paper-towns #miracles

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#taste #wallpaper #wild

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#thoughtlessness #information

And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together. ↗

— John Green

#paper #towns #pleasure

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#journalism #mainstream-media #newspapers #journalist