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• So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. (William Morris) [system/competition/exchange/life]
• Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. (Italo Calvino) [cities/exchange/form/order]
• What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another. (Havelock Ellis) [civilization & progress/exchange]
• Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing. (Andre Malraux) [life/exchange/money/men]
• So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. (William Morris) [system/competition/exchange/life]
• The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. (Adam Smith) [barter/exchange/thing/men]
• I didn't work for three years. I couldn't get arrested! I'd given up, really, and was working for my brother on a building site and working on the crew at the Royal Exchange Theatre, building sets and changing the scenery. (Christopher Eccleston) [exchange/theatre]
• “I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment” (Frances Farmer) [gifts/love/exchange]
• It's a complete illusion, this notion. We create for ourselves this strange delusion that we exchange our lives for someone else's. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [strange/exchange]
• The First Amendment requires us to be vigilant in making these judgments, to guard against undue hindrances to political conversations and the exchange of ideas (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [exchange/]
• I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had. (Eva Braun) [exchange/money]
• To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government. (Kim Dae-jung) [/exchange/cooperation/target]

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