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"Prestige is the shadow of money and power."
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"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."
"The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending."
"Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas."
"Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that."
"I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money."
"The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms."
"That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there."
"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."
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"In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth."
"People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages."
"Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions."
"Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests."
"What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited."
"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both."
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