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"It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own."
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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
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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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"Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have."
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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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"I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter."
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"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing."
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"I am the most loyal player money can buy."
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"People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs."
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"The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass."
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"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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"Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture."
Cultural
"It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own."
Money
"I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off."
People
"As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion."
Opinion
"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."
Cultural
"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."
Diplomacy
"The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century."
Science
"Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks."
Prejudice
"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."
Cultural
"As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything."
Life
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