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1 " IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them. "
― Stafford Beer
2 " Look at a coin from your pocket. On one side is " heads" - the symbol of the political authority which minted the coin; on the other side is " tails" - the precise specification of the amount the coin is worth as payment in exchange. One side reminds us that states underwrite currencies and the money is originally a relation between persons in society, a token perhaps. The other reveals the coin as a thing, capable of entering into definite relations with other things. "
3 " Whether or not he was in it, whether or not he could see or touch it, he'd thought there would always be a FIllory out there somewhere. He loved knowing it was there. It anchored his sense of happiness, the way a distant stockpile of gold might underwrite the value of a paper bill. "
― Lev Grossman , The Magician's Land (The Magicians, #3)
4 " Faith is to believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. "
