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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds."

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Dennis Miller Comedian
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"I like money. It's fun to fold and stack and smell and look at. It's just plain fun to count money, and I often do it in a loud falsetto while wearing nothing but a captain's hat and a coin changer."

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Dodie Smith Author
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"I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?"

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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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"People don't realize that, you know, we have - "we" meaning people in show business have the same problems as everybody else. Money don't change that. Fame don't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a - different kind of problems. As they say, money ain't everything."

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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"Oprah is rich; Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out of a window and slit his throat on the way down saying, 'I can't even put gas in my plane!'"

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Cyril Smith Artist
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"Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind."

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
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"What's missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn't matter because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks."

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested in any of us or in anything we do. You think if you pay the bills, that's enough, don't you? Money! That's all you know. And all you give us is money. Have you even given us any time?"

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it."

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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist
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"How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula."

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five."

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi."

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