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We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency [backed by] gold of which we had none, but for every mark that was issued we required the equivalent of a mark's worth of work done or goods produced. . . we laugh at the time our national financiers held the view that the value of a currency is regulated by the gold and securities lying in the vaults of a state bank.

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Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.

Bring, Come, Events, Meanings
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Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.

Asks, Children, Internalize, Job, Jobs

Teach the writer, not the writing.

Writing, Teach, Writer

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

Able, Everything, Eye, Toward, Writing

When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is it so hard for us to glory in what the writer has tried to do, or even in the very fact that the writer has deliberately tried to do something?

Deliberately, Effect, Littles, Overdone, Self, Trying

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

Education, Writing, Labels, Effectively, Label, Use
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