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P. J. O'Rourke

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."

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"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."

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"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."

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"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."

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"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."

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"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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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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"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."

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"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."

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"Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money."

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