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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 gives you the conviction that you're not naked in the howling wind, even though you basically are, existentially. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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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 of the gold and silver mines? ↗

— David Graeber

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Max would conclude, "that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money. ↗

— Richard Russo

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The secret of true prosperity is finding our security through our connection with the divine, with the spiritual world. ↗

— Christopher Penczak

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You see, each country has a colour, a smell, and also a contagious sickness. In my country the sickness is complacency. In France it's arrogance, and in the United States it's ignorance." "What about Rwanda?" "Easy power and impunity. Here, there's total disorder. To someone who has a little money or powere, everything that seems forbidden elsewhere looks permissible and possible. All it takes is to dare it. Someone who's simply a liar in my country can be a fraud artist here, and the fraud artist gets to be a big-time thief. Chaos and most of all poverty give him powers he wouldn't have elsewhere. ↗

— Gil Courtemanche

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The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise. ↗

— Mark Sundeen

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The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich. ↗

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

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Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is ↗

— Agatha Christie

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It was not uncommon to see the letters G.T.T. painted or carved on the doorways of cabins in Tennessee and other parts of the country especially in the south. It was a sure sign that the occupants had picked up and were as they said "Gone to Texas". It was a popular expression for those people who had committed crimes or owed money or just did not want to be found. ↗

— Michael Wallis

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A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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