"The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible."

Money, Buying, Pleasure

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"The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible."

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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass."

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"I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent."

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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."

Jay Chiat, American Businessman

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"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."

John Spratt, American Politician

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"Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites."

Suze Orman, American Author

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"If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already."

Paul Ryan, American Politician

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"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."

William Blake, English Poet

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"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

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"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."

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"Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die."

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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."

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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."

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"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return."

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"Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age."

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"Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent."

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