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Money Quotes
"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread."
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"The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money."
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"It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money."
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"The most popular labor-saving device is still money."
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"But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates."
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"I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight."
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"The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow."
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"The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition."
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"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
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"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."
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"Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have."
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"We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge."
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"Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash."
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"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."
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"The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul."
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"Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent."
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"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."
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"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."
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"One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money."
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"They are only after my money, they are nothing for me."
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"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."
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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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"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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"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."
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"Love is blind. Love of money is blind. Greed and money make people forfeit the quiddity of life, banish them from what is essential and alienate them from themselves. They lose their identity and become drifting exiles. ['Money rocking and rolling']"
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