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"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier."
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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."

"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."

"I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about."

"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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"By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth."

"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."

"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."

"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason."

"It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better."

"I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society."

"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."

"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring."
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