#transaction

On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#between #difference #europe #financial #go

Janet Malcolm had famously described journalism as the art of seduction and betrayal. Any reporter who didn't see journalism as "morally indefensible" was either "too stupid" or "too full of himself," she wrote. I disagreed. Without shutting the door on the possibility that I was both stupid and full of myself, I'd never bought into the seduction and betrayal conceit. At most, journalism - particularly when writing about media-hungry public figures - was like the seduction of a prostitute. The relationship was transactional. They weren't talking to me because they liked me or because I impressed them; they were talking to me because they wanted the cover of Rolling Stone. ↗

— Michael Hastings

#transactional-relationships #art

I just acquired a choir. I bought it for a song.
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— Jarod Kintz

#buy #choir #consumption #deal #funny

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#business #childish #professional #say #transactions

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us. ↗

— Richard Whately

#close #human #judgment #law #most

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#fails #give #give and take #how #know

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#ever #liberties #may #never #nor

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#busy #busy life #carries #day #every

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#conversion #earth #glorified #god #much

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions. ↗

— Noah Webster

#considered #government #great #great source #guided