{"quotes":[{"text":"Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.","author":"Amy Harmon","tags":["barter","consequences","cost","exchange","karma","lesson","life","pain","painful","pleasure","result","reward","taught","teach","ugly","worth"],"id":35078,"author_id":"Amy+Harmon"},{"text":"Money is a means of exchange.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["exchange","inspiring","money"],"id":73798,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["agony","exchange","forever","laughter","negotiation","swap","tears","trade","wealth"],"id":75498,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["choice","choices","choose","choosing","climb","correct","decide","deciding","decision","decisions","deliberate","deliberation","dig","digging","exchange","fool","foolish","hole","ladder","ladders","shovel","solve","stupid","stupidity","thoughtful","thoughtless","trade","wisdom","wise"],"id":101546,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["compromise","exchange","hungers","offer","person","satan","spiritual"],"id":108799,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.","author":"Elizabeth George","tags":["christian","excellent","exchange","faith","god","habit","prayer","trust","worry"],"id":117370,"author_id":"Elizabeth+George"},{"text":"Money is only a means.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["exchange","inspirational","money","purchase","selling"],"id":120963,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I am nurtured within the womb of universal consciousness. It supports my developing awareness as I witness, engage, learn, create, exchange.","author":"Jay Woodman","tags":["aware","awareness","consciousness","create","engage","exchange","learn","universal","universe","witness"],"id":124508,"author_id":"Jay+Woodman"},{"text":"Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and countries, rules the whole world through the relation of supply and demand—a relation which, as an English economist says, hovers over the earth like the fate of the ancients, and with invisible hand allots fortune and misfortune to men, sets up empires and overthrows empires, causes nations to rise and to disappear—while with the abolition of the basis of private property, with the communistic regulation of production (and implicit in this, the destruction of the alien relation between men and what they themselves produce), the power of the relation of supply and demand is dissolved into nothing, and men get exchange, production, the mode of their mutual relation, under their own control again?","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["alienation","capitalism","communism","economics","economies","empires","exchange","fate","global-trade","invisible-hand","nations","production","supply-and-demand","trade"],"id":127845,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["communicate","communication","control","convey","dialogue","doors","exchange","ideas","ignorance","intellect","interpret","interpretation","language","meaning","misinterpretated","misinterpretation","misunderstand","misunderstanding","peace","power","power-of-words","reading","right-word","sentence","speaking","suzy-kassem","talking","thinking","thought","tones","translation","underestimate","understand","understanding","war","wars","word","words","writing"],"id":156848,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}