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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"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."

"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."

"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

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

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

"See money " currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully."

"Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash."

"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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