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He pulled out a single half-blackened disc of bronze. "Money," he said. "You get it by working, and then you trade it for things you want." "But it's so small," said Runnel. "So's your wit," said the man, and turned away. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#money

Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. ↗

— State Farm

#save-money #stalin #money

Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#gear #investment #money #travel #money

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. ↗

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#philosophy #change

Money doesn't make you happy," Mom insists, whipping carrots and lettuce out of the cart. "Money doesn't make you laugh when you're lonely, or make you full of contentment on Christmas morning. ↗

— Roxanne St. Claire

#money

I’m not growing old for free. I’m charging myself with the task of becoming someone better every day. And by better I mean younger. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #change

Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalised ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many … can be recalled by name. But they are not the living-dead. There is a difference. ↗

— James W Loewen

#death-and-dying #ghosts #lies-my-teacher-told-me #spirits #art

You can say, 'Well, if they tore down Fenway Park, we can build a new one.' But you wouldn’t build it right. It’s better to make the accommodations, to save the old ballparks. If Fenway Park needs sky boxes to bring in the poverty-stricken owners enough money to save the stadium before they tear it down and move it someplace else, then build the damn sky boxes. If Wrigley Field needs lights to survive, put up the damn lights.... Make the damn structural improvements, but save the ballpark because when you try to rebuild a cathedral five hundred years too late, it doesn’t come out the same. ↗

— Tom Boswell

#red-sox #money

And the reason Luke is thinking about time and free will is because he believes that money is the closest human beings have ever come to crystallizing time and free will into a compact physical form. Cash. Cash is a time crystal. Cash allows you to multiply your will, and it allows you to speed up time. Cash is what defines us as a species. Nothing else in the universe has money. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#money #time #money

Money is like manure; it should be spread around ↗

— Brooke Astor

#money