"Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them."
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"Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth."
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"I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop."
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"His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine."
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"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."
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"I was raised to have value for money, to have respect for money, even though you have a lot of it."
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"But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many."
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"Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind."
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"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want"
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"In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means."
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"No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year."
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"Honor, without money, is a mere malady."
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"I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am content, and have a feeling of trust and safety. The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all--in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and morals."
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"Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day."
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"Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers."
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"Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system that was so economically profitable must be morally justifiable. ... Science was commandeered to prove the biological inferiority of the Negro. Even philosophical logic was manipulated [exemplified by] an Aristotlian syllogism: All men are made in the image of God; God, as everyone knows, is not a Negro; Therefore, the Negro is not a man."
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"Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil."
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"I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball."
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"Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it."
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"I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy."
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