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"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money."
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"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."
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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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"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."
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"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
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"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."
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"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."
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"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from 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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"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."
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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
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"In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks."
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"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money."
Money

"A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him."
Body

"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world."
Love

"If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet."
Time

"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
Reading

"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."
Life

"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing."
God

"Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense."
Nature

"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."
Happiness
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