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"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security."
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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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"The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it."
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"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security."
Money
"It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more."
Work
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
Government
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence."
Intelligence
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
Intelligence
"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich."
People
"All adventure is now reactionary."
Adventure
"It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for."
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"The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar."
Thought
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