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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
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"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
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Personal Development

"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
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"It is not important how much money you gave away. It is important what good it will do on the way."
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"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."
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"As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it."
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"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."
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"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
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"You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering."
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"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
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"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."
Singing

"Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues."
Time

"I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age."
Age

"You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?"
Church

"That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through."
Old

"I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing."
Christmas

"I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory."
Life

"I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone."
Time

"Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice."
Man

"My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it."
Church
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