"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Money, Flattery, Vanity

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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."

Alice Walker, American Author

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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."

Mark Edwards, American Celebrity

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Jay Chiat, American Businessman

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"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."

John Spratt, American Politician

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"Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites."

Suze Orman, American Author

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"If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already."

Paul Ryan, American Politician

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"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."

William Blake, English Poet

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"I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about."

Max Weinberg, American Musician

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"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."

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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."

"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."

"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."

"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."

"Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites."

"If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already."

"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."

"I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about."

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"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."

"The mind is always the patsy of the heart."

"If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves."

"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."

"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

"Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example."