"The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization."
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"After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirins."
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"The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it."
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"Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more."
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"The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it."
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"Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end."
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"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."
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"To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?"
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"If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living."
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"Virtue has never been as respectable as money."
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"Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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"The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery."
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"If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants."
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"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."
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"Those who spend too fast never grow rich."
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"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money."
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"Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body."
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"I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money."
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"If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it."
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"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."
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