“If Enron had been forced to pay cash dividends, it could never have pulled that caper off!”
Quotes from Crash Proof (2006)
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Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Source: The Rommel Papers (1953), Ch. XXIII : The Sky Has Grown Dark, p. 523.
“Cash Payment the sole nexus; and there are so many things which cash will not pay!”
Source: 1840s, Chartism (1840), Ch. 7, Not Laissez-Faire.
Context: Cash Payment the sole nexus; and there are so many things which cash will not pay! Cash is a great miracle; yet it has not all power in Heaven, nor even on Earth. 'Supply and demand' we will honour also; and yet how many 'demands' are there, entirely indispensable, which have to go elsewhere than to the shops, and produce quite other than cash, before they can get their supply? On the whole, what astonishing payments does cash make in this world!
“While his off-heel, insidiously aside,
Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.”
Pizarro (first acted 24 May 1799), Prologue.
“The colonists, it seems, had to "pay taxes to which their consent had never been asked."”
Footnote: Today we pay taxes but our consent has been asked, and we have told the government to go ahead and tax us all they want to. We like it.
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part V: Merrie England, George III
Source: Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part V: Merrie England, George III