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-Do you think it's dirty money?-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Angel's Game

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's ...

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life...

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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is be...

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The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to...

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The mundanes put their faith in their paper money, and when that turns to ash, the world will turn u...

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in lo...

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I'm one of those who doesn't think there is much differencebetween an atomic scientist and a man who...

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I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in th...

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The good times were over. Nobody gave a shit and nobody had any money and if they had any, they kept...

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Charles BukowskiShort Stories of Charles Bukowski

We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to ...

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty...

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[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee...

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Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feeli...

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I wish I had only offered youa sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve...

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I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat insid...

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The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for ...

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If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than t...

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During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton w...

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Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to...

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Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can'...

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Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk awa...

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In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time e...

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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always...

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But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

Money here on Earth is more than the paper or the metal that you use for money, more than the rows o...

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Clifford D. SimakThey Walked Like Men

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with...

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Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody th...

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Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men

When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I bre...

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That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.

Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even th...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but d...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain ...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Where your money goes, there your heart follows.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I ...

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When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is...

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All the lot. Their spunk is gone dead. Motor-cars and cinemas and aeroplanes suck that last bit out ...

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover:

The one thing women love more than money is power.

A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government i...

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My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately aft...

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Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

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Daniel KahnemanWell-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology

I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. B...

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People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It...

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Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent...

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I'd always rather be working - and you know what? My kids would rather me be working. If I stay at h...

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Power and moneyLike Pooh Bear and honeyStick fast.

You know Quinn?" Macaulay asked me."Ten minutes ago I was putting him to bed."Macaulay grinned. "I h...

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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own person...

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My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on...

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I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient...

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I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will s...

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...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one i...

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money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumab...

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David GraeberDebt: The First 5,000 Years

But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market ...

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David GraeberDebt: The First 5,000 Years

In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central...

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David GraeberDebt: The First 5,000 Years

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an u...

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Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned...

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David SedarisMe Talk Pretty One Day

I'd think it strange that the boardinghouse attracted both him and me, but that's what cheap places ...

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging ...

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Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only ...

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People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no...

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The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't...

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Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several,...

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Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid,...

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My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and work...

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Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in h...

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Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be su...

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Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

I have respect for Senator McCain. I used to like him a lot. I supported him. I raised a lot of mone...

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We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have mone...

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playi...

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Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the ...

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It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and s...

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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to wor...

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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

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Dorothy L. SayersThe Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

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Dorothy L. SayersThe Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule,...

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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studdedwheelchair.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were un...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Worrying about money is one of the worst worries. It’s like having locked-in syndrome, except you’re...

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So I got to thinking that perhaps that’s what money is: a crystallization—or, rather, a homogenizati...

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And the reason Luke is thinking about time and free will is because he believes that money is the cl...

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Douglas CouplandPlayer One: What Is to Become of Us

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.