A Quote by Jackson Browne
I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.
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I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender.
Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.
Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man. Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.Joy is wealth.
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle for a girl to find meaning outside of the romance plot.
Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.
Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.
Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.
The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.
As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
When you're a younger company, you struggle, struggle, struggle with, 'How are we going to pay the bills, and how are we going to hire people, and how are we going to get a bigger office?' Just managing the company is so hard.
When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
Who's the bigger idiot, the idiot or the idiot who gets fooled by the idiot?
No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works.
when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.
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