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England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine...

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Mary WollstonecraftLetters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry,...

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Masha GessenThe Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most power...

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You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings...

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The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-te...

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If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money you have only to look at those to whom he gives...

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I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover ...

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I read once that you need two things to be happy. Any two of health, money and love. You can cover t...

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It's easy to make money when you have a lot of it.

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Max TegmarkOur Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had ve...

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My mom lived with me until I started making enough money to support myself. I was asking her to leav...

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I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from mo...

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Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

There is only one sure means in life," Deasey said, "of ensuring that you are not ground into paste ...

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Michael ChabonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usual...

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The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or n...

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What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don’t need to make smart...

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Michael Lewis (author)The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The on...

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My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more mone...

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Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside...

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We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come fr...

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I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money....

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Nobody in this country is on Social Security because they made the decision when they were starting ...

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I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I m...

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You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of ...

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The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid fo...

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Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long va...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make mone...

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To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born,...

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The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right w...

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I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart li...

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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need...

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a ...

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Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happ...

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There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progres...

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

You become what you think about

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Napoleon HillSuccess Through A Positive Mental Attitude

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished ...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Gold is the corpse of value...

How does a poor country defeat rich ones?” “Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sen...

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And yet all the gold is in England, it is dug up from Portuguese and Spanish mines, but it flows by ...

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The biggest machines, in those days, were already pushing the limits of what could be constructed on...

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If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natu...

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I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrat...

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If you take all the money we've spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied that m...

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If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are ...

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The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

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Niall FergusonThe Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. ...

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Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without strugg...

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My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats a...

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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a s...

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If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

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Og MandinoThe Greatest Salesman in the World

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buyi...

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Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance syst...

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Ah take the Cash and let the Credit go Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with...

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And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich.""Money and talent aren't the same thing.""Tha...

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I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it....

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For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be ...

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Osamu DazaiThe Setting Sun

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the...

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When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it...

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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Time is a waste of money.

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Oscar WildeComplete Works of Oscar Wilde

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his butt...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan o...

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The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in...

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I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.

What is a whore?"Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span ...

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There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack o...

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My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks...

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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating con...

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The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poe...

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The road to economic well-being is to reward productive economic activity and to provide a moderate ...

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When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburge...

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[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of variou...

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George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman ...

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I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the ...

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Pearl S. BuckThe Good Earth

If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence an...

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As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on s...

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This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you kn...

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It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money i...

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Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed peopl...

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I have had so many Dwellings, Nat, that I know these Streets as well as a strowling Beggar: I was bo...

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For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.