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"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."
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"I don't know which I hate most my bills or the money I pay them with..."

"Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown."

"It is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. No force in the world can take from me my five hundred pounds. Food, house, and clothing are mine forever. Therefore not merely do effort and labour cease, but also hatred and bitterness. I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me."

"Some people will each start investing more of their salary on 'their' house and spending less of it on 'their' car or cars only when they start being able to take 'their' house to work, funerals, weddings, etc."

"Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent."

"If money is spent in the wrong way, then 'control' the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then 'decontrol' the spending."

"Sharpen and trust your judgement: learn when spending is a shrewd investment and when it is merely an indulgence."

"Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants."

"Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions."

"Your future self would surely thank your present self if you start to wisely invest your money now."
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"There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem."

"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."

"I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war."

"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam."

"There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own."
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