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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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[Jenks]"I think you're all screwy in the head," he said when Bis nodded his encouragement. "But go ahead. I've got Quen's number in my phone. I'll call him if you both explode in a flash of black underwear and money so I won't have to fly all the way home. ↗

— Kim Harrison

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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are. -- A Prologue to Love ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#life #love #money #life

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked. ↗

— Betty Smith

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People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop. ↗

— Kathy Lette

#kathy-lette #money #nip-tuck #shop #money

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

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So that, in effect, religion, which should most distiguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational and mere senseless than beasts themselves ↗

— John Locke

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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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[Inigo corners Count Rugen, knocks his sword aside, and slashes his cheek, giving him a scar just like Inigo's] Inigo Montoya: Offer me money. Count Rugen: Yes! Inigo Montoya: Power, too, promise me that. [He slashes his other cheek] Count Rugen: All that I have and more. Please... Inigo Montoya: Offer me anything I ask for. Count Rugen: Anything you want... [Rugen knocks Inigo's sword aside and lunges. But Inigo traps his arm and aims his sword at Rugen's stomach] Inigo Montoya: I want my father back, you son of a bitch! ↗

— William Goldman

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