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"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."
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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."

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

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

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

"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."

"Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have."

"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

"Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?"
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"I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another."


"This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession."


"The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it."


"There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God."


"The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured."


"In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust."


"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."


"Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room."


"Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination."
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