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"Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure " attractively packaged but inferior in content."
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"I am a good toy , guaranteed you will enjoy till you will play with me. and i am quite also . i do not do any complaint as you will throw-out me after get new one.and you do not need to worry. i do not have heart feelings and emotions so i do not feel pain and hurt. I am toy. i am just a toy of other's hand for entertain them."
"Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique."
"The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world."
"Riches bring only problems and sorrows to people."
"I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism-religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality."
"The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!--Which it never can be...."
"There is nothing around me but money, money, money."
"Money isn't everything. It's the only thing."
"Money is necessary in everyone's life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn't have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn't need to exist."
"If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does?"
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"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter."
"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt."
"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
"Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they'll say you're crazy and you're blasphemous, and they'll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, 'My goodness, I've just discovered that I'm God,' they'll laugh and say, 'Oh, congratulations, at last you found out."
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