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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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"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."
Thinking
"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."
Editing
"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."
Poetry
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
Prose
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
Sophists
"I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out."
Shaggy
"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty."
Emotional
"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
Society
"I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions."
Theory
"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do."
Poetry
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