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“The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the grea...”
“Ask them about their sex lives or their drinking habits or the times they beat up on Granny and they may dodge around a little but eventually they'll tell you all about it - they're dying to tell. ...”
“And the great thing about money is that it doesnt matter when you harvest it. Its an all-year crop.”
“Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.”
“Money never sleeps, pal”
“Riches draw friends as corpses draw vultures”
“Money here on Earth is more than the paper or the metal that you use for money, more than the rows of figures that account for money. Here on Earth you have given money a symbolism such as no mediu...”
“If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”
“A brand-new tape recorder, completely worn out. Bought with funny money that the store is willing to accept. Worthless money, worthless article purchased; it has a sort of logic to it.”
“Wealth does not consist of having a lot of money or possessions, but to be content with little needs.”
“There was something alienating about being on scholarship, a tense mixture of gratefulness and otherness. You're talented, the money said, and we want you here. Still, it had the twang of You were,...”
“We are just peasants with money.”
“That's the funny thing about stealing money---it always seems to be the rich people who have the most of it.”
“Money should not be the motivator in your life, it will only make you slave. Stand for values and you will die in honor.”
“Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash.”
“Sharply the menacing wind sweeps overThe bending poplars, newly bare,And the dark ribbons of the chimneysVeer downward; flicked by whips of air.Torn posters flutter; coldly soundThe boom of trams a...”
“The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain...”
“Money is representative, and follows the nature and fortunes of the owner...The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it repres...”
“It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.”
“There is no end in India, Mr. Jiabao,as Mr. Ashok so correctly used to say. You'll have to keep paying and paying the fuckers. But I complain about the police the way the rich complain; not the way...”
