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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.

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to...

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You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

...the people who find fault with society are too apt to regard it as an end and not a means, just a...

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Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

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Edith WhartonThe House of Mirth

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was ...

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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, ...

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In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Cong...

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Money never goes out of fashion.

When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money ...

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I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer ...

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Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they bu...

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Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way people have voices an...

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A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happi...

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I wanted to have money I wanted to be special I wanted people to like me I wanted to be famous.

If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where...

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An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in hi...

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A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

My theme is, 'The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.' Not money. Not the World Series. It'...

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The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-ter...

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It is a good thing to be rich it is a good thing to be strong but it is a better thing to be belov...

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Money is the wise man's religion.

I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a ...

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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; ...

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Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beaut...

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In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off s...

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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end o...

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Riches are for spending.

Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Riches are for spending.

Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architectur...

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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...

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One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. Pe...

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Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order toderive a permanent future in...

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It is a curious thought that the earliest description of the steam-engine in antiquity describes its...

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my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries...

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I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles livedBut th...

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Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of...

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Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around...

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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.