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Mahalia Jackson

"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test."

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"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."

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Amber Hurdle

"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."

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"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."

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"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle."

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Amber Hurdle

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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"When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on."
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