What backed the money was not gold or something of intrinsic value, but rather the collective belief that money had value because it had to have such value. Thus it was that the monetary system of the United States and every other country in the world was entirely an exercise in psychology, A thing of the mind, and as a result, so was every other aspect of the American economy. If money was simply a matter of communal faith, then so was every thing else.- Tom Clancy
War is the ultimate criminal act, an armed robbery writ large. And it's always about greed. it's always a nation that wants something another nation has. And you defeat that nation by recognizing what it wants and denying it to them. The seeds of their defeat are usually found in the seeds of their desire.- Tom Clancy
War [is] always about economics, one of the few things that Marx had gotten right… They have it. We want it. Let's get it… War is never rational.- Tom Clancy
We are not who we think we are. We are who we are when we stop thinking.- Trevor Thomas
Our lives aren't even about doing real things, most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend to visit places we've never actually been to, discuss things that are just names as though they were as real as rocks or animals… It's the imagination age. We are living in our own minds.- Tad Williams
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What other people think of me is none of my business.- Eleanor Roosevelt
All meaningful and lasting change starts from the inside.- Lou Tice
No matter what I hear, or what anyone tells me, I always try and remember that there is no...
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