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The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
The counterfeits of the past take assumed names, and are fond of calling themselves the future. That eternally returning spector, the past, not infrequently falsifies its passport.
Counterfeits of the past, under new names, may easily be mistaken for the future. The past, that ghostly traveler, is liable to forge his papers. We must be wary of the trap. The past has a face which is superstition, and a mask, which is hypocrisy. We must expose the face and tear off the mask.
Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.
A brand is a person.
We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are not marketed under fake names.
A false religion is like the imitation of high fashion. The very presence of counterfeits proves the existence of the real. There would be no imitations without a genuine product. God's original design has always had imitators and counterfeits!
The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.
Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.
When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are.
Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.
Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:
Things least to be believed are most preferred.
All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,
Are readily believed if once put down in print
Brands that stand out from the competition are purposefully disruptive or different
& if I'm fake I aint notice cause my money aint
We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit.
With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.
To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed.
About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.
Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.
It is important to understand that in the modern world we prefer the replica to the original because it gives us the greater frisson. I leave that word in French because I think you understand it well that way.
Authenticity is key.
There is a great counterfeiter who adapts himself to every culture, even deceiving true believers at times. He doesn't charge on the scene clothed in red and wearing a hideous mask but charms his way as an "angel of light." This is how Satan operates.
I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.
Art is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer is not art, it is "authenticity
Without a constant counterfeiting of the world by means of numbers, man could not live - that
You can't fake authenticity.
A penny for your dirty thoughts A pin for your cheating lips. If a picture's worth a thousand words I hope your counterfeit canvas rips.
This girl was so authentic she probably had a trademark stamped on her ass.
If you are not a brand, you are a commodity.
A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir.
This is the second Old Master I have encountered that has the signatures of another artist forged over it. A painting that has been created by another artist entirely. It's like they played mix and match.
Do not be deceived by impostors.
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.
From my hair to my toes to my nails. Everything's fake. Everything! Even my heart is fake.
Gold wrapped old crap.
I don't believe in brands.
An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.
Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.
Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze ...
Sometimes the real looks fake, especially when you've looked at the fake for so long.
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
Why shouldst thou not take even as much pleasure in beholding a counterfeit stone, which thine eye cannot discern from a right stone?
Every photograph is a fake from start to finish,
The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.
Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live
Fakers Are Feted, Innovators Are Isolated
How am I supposed to believe you when you're obviously carrying a fake monogram Gucci Bag?
Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.
Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
Truth for us nowadays is not what is, but what others can be brought to accept: just as we call money not only legal tender but any counterfeit coins in circulation.
Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.
Anything that consoles is fake.
Brand is not what you say it is. It's what they say it is.
Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a prevaricated truth and an authentic fake, hence a thing that is at once the truth and a lie.
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.
A brand is a promise. A good brand is a promise kept.
The counterfeit trinity is me, myself, and I.
A brand from a brand | is kindled and burned, And fire from fire begotten; And man by his speech | is known to men, And the stupid by their stillness.
Don't Pretend Fake Be Original Pretend To Be
The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future.
You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.
Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
A bargain,' said the son. 'Here's the rule for bargains -"Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true business precept. All others are counterfeits.
In a civilization devoted to the strictly abstract and mathematical ideal of making the most money in the least time, the only sure method of success is to cheat the customer, to sell various kinds of nothingness in pretentious packages.
my parents Oedipal fakers
The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.
Brands are born, not created.
IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.
If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?
The fake seen tawdry.
A fake ring. A fake engagement. Fake love. Everything was fake. Shiny and put together on the outside, empty on the inside.
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
If printing money helped the economy, then counterfeiting should be legal
There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.
Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch.
Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does ...
A bootlegger is a bootlegger, a scalper is a scalper.
Obsess about the quality of the product.
Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing decisions.
Without differentiation you have no brand
...I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity...
Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?
He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.
Everything is copy.Copy-- Nora Ephron
The understanding eye sees the maker's fingerprints. They are evident in every detail ... Leave Fingerprints.
What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.
A brand is simply trust.
Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.
Constancy ... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.
The biggest mistake brands make are trying to "sell their stuff" rather than clarifying what people are actually buying.
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.
Police," I say.
"Let's see your badge."
"I'm undercover. And I'm going to need that as evidence."
She hands me the spiff. I take a drag. "Yep, it's the real deal. You're busted.