"The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people."

Money, People, Law, Vice

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"The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people."

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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

Bette Davis, American Actress

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"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."

Stephen Ambrose, American Historian

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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

Imogen Cunningham, American Photographer

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"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."

Denis Johnson, German Writer

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"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable."

Being,

"Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side."

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"At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it."

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"The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people."

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"The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not."

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"Be truthful, nature only sides with truth."

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"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."

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"The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative."

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"Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art."

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"Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art."

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