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The usual definition of the functions of money are that money is a medium of exchange, a measure of value, a standard of deferred payment and a store of value.

— Norman Angell Sir Norman Angell in The Story of Money (1930)

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It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

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The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men.

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This book endeavors to clear away the mists which prevent so many from seeing the road.

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Political nationalism has become, for the European of our age the most important thing in the world, more important than civilization, humanity, decency, kindness, pity, more important than life itself.

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