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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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"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

"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."

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

"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."

"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."

"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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"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."

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

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

"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."

"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."

"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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