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"You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world."
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"Riches bring only problems and sorrows to people."

"It is quite unfortunate when you think about the amount of money some people spend unnecessarily just to be labeled as being "important" or "relevant" in the public eye."

"Mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. He had seemed to love it little in the years when every penny had its purpose for him; for he loved the purpose then. But now, when all purpose was gone, that habit of looking towards the money and grasping it with a sense of fulfilled effort made a loam that was deep enough for the seeds of desire."

"For our radically misnamed "materialistic civilization must above all cultivate the love of material, of earth, air, and water, of mountains and forests, of excellent food and imaginative housing and clothing, and of cherishing our artfully erotic contacts between human bodies. Certainly, all these so"called "things are as impermanent as ripples in water, but what life, what love, what energy is there in a perfectly pure abstraction or a totally solid and eternally indestructible rock?"

"Money may not be able to buy her love but it will definitely make her pay attention."

"I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism-religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality."

"Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss."

"It is good to have wealth. It is great to leave in comfort. It is awesome to obtain possessions but, don't be too eager for material possessions for the same material possessions that bring joy are the same possessions that bring sorrow and pain and also leave a big had I know on our minds."

"Loving money is more of a problem for those who do not have it."
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"My life goal right now is to die a good man, with a good heart, soul, and mind, with a good family, and a couple Grammys."

"Success comes with failure which leads to doubts but with determination we can still achieve."

"I feel so blessed to be alive and so blessed to have to have a father that loves me no matter how much wrong I do in this world."

"Grind until you get it no matter what the haters say and never look back, keep striving cause its your life."

"Don't you ever let another put their hands on something that's already yours, because you might end up breaking your own heart."

"If two people are meant for one another, that doesn't mean that they have to rush and be together right away. Real love takes time to grow, just like how it takes time to grow from children to adults."
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