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“In treating people as less important than things, work becomes both demoralised and demoralising and we become blind to the moral content of our decisions...Money and wilfful blindness make us act ...”
“How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?”
“At only ten a.m., Edgar found himself already eyeing the Doritos on the counter. One thing he hadn't anticipated about the 'home office' was Snack Syndrome; lately his mental energies divided evenl...”
“Haven't you enough money?'For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.”
“money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political contention.”
“It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.”
“I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.”
“But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't the obvious thing be to just grab control ...”
“. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.”
“The secret of true prosperity is finding our security through our connection with the divine, with the spiritual world.”
“When you don't have enough or you run out, you feel in your core that the leak has begun and there will be no end to the leakage. And this makes you feel like a chump. Whereas having some money giv...”
“I spend my money...I don't know on what.”
“Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.”
“Look at a coin from your pocket. On one side is "heads" - the symbol of the political authority which minted the coin; on the other side is "tails" - the precise specification of the amount the coi...”
“If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.”
“Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is”
“...the people who find fault with society are too apt to regard it as an end and not a means, just as the people who despise money speak as if its only use were to be kept in bags and gloated over?...”
“Up before sunrise. Marjorie hated getting out of bed in the dark, but loved the payoff once she was dressed and rolling down the country roads in the first light, cruising and owning them almost al...”
“Money is permission to live.”
“The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.”
