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Logan Pearsall Smith

"The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists."

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"The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"Earned money brings you security, borrowed money gets you slavery."

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"If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas."

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"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."

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Amber Hurdle

"As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money."

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