circulate

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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

To pass from place to place, from person to person, or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates.

To cause to pass from place to place, or from person to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit.

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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate. David Harvey

Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. Ralph Waldo Emerson

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time. Karl Marx

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. Leo Burnett

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture. Audre Lorde

Cars are free to circulate but still there are speed limits, therefore I do not see why, at the international level, we should not study ways to limit monetary movements. Bankers cannot act at will. ... Why should we not draw up some rules of the game? Jacques Delors

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