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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
Money

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."

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Rick Wright Musician
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"The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money."

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Socrates Philosopher
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"I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty."

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."

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Stuart Wilde Author, Speaker
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"It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better."

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Mae West Actress, Singer, Screenwriter
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"When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin."

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs."

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Money

"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
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"You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold."

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