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"But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities."
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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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"In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old."
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"Consumption may be regarded as negative production."
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"Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law."
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"Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money."
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"All labour is directed towards producing some effect."
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"Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species."
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"In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context."
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"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth."
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"But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities."
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"In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose."
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