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James A. Baldwin

"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."

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"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."

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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 should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money."

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"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."

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"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."

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"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

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"It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts 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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"I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there."

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"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."

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"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
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"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."
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