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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 63192, member: 57463&quot;]<b>NUMISMATICS is the art and science that studies the forms and uses of money.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>1. &quot;Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value.&quot;</p><p><a href="http://www.atlasshrugged.tv/speech.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.atlasshrugged.tv/speech.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.atlasshrugged.tv/speech.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>HISTORY is the record of human achievement.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>2.a. &quot;The Greeks were the first people to say that the world was knowable, because they believed in man&#039;s power of reason.&quot; </p><p><a href="http://www.hol.gr/greece/grkpg1.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hol.gr/greece/grkpg1.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.hol.gr/greece/grkpg1.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>2.b. &quot;Classical Greece was the birthplace of the Olympic Games because it was a culture that admired individual human greatness.&quot; </p><p><a href="http://www.command-post.org/oped/2_archives/014315.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.command-post.org/oped/2_archives/014315.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.command-post.org/oped/2_archives/014315.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>2.c. &quot;Western civilization was the child and product of reason -- via ancient Greece.&quot;</p><p><a href="http://freedomkeys.com/faithandforce.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://freedomkeys.com/faithandforce.htm" rel="nofollow">http://freedomkeys.com/faithandforce.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>2.d. The highpoint of commercial culture was the 19th century, which had its roots in the Enlightenment and which continues even today the way the shoreline remains wet after the tide recedes.</p><p><a href="http://www.chicagoobjectivists.org/course.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.chicagoobjectivists.org/course.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.chicagoobjectivists.org/course.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1308" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1308" rel="nofollow">http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1308</a></p><p><a href="http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=60" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=60" rel="nofollow">http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=60</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>COLLECTING is an intellectual effort for relaxation.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>3. &quot;A collector is not a passive spectator, but an active, purposeful agent in a cumulative drive. He cannot stand still: an album page without fresh additions becomes a reproach, an almost irresistible call to embark on a new quest.&quot;</p><p><a href="http://ellensplace.net/ar_stamp.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ellensplace.net/ar_stamp.html" rel="nofollow">http://ellensplace.net/ar_stamp.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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