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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.
– Alveda King
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
– Jack White
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A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
– Stanley Weiser
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A fool and his money are soon parted.
– Thomas Tusser
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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
– Al Bernstein
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A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
– Henry A. Wallace
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
– Samuel Butler
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A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.
– Taylor Swift
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A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
– Everett Dirksen
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
– Bob Hope
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'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.
– Beth Ditto
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Success produces success, just as money produces money.
– Diane Ackerman
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
– Joseph Addison
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It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.
– Clay Aiken
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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
– Louisa May Alcott
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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
– Scott Alexander
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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.
– Scott Alexander
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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.
– Marty Allen
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When you're doing what you love to do, the money comes naturally. Maybe not at first, but eventually... if you stick with it. Do you think Bob Hope started out with a goal, I want to become a millionaire by making people laugh, then I'll retire to do what I want? I doubt it. He just did what he did best. And the money came.
– Robert G. Allen
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And if you can't keep your ego under control, it's going to cost you a lot of money.
– Al Alvarez
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But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.
– Al Alvarez
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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
– Al Alvarez
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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
– Martin Amis
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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
– Martin Amis
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A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
– Ian Anderson
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God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
– Jean Anouilh
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The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?
– Christina Applegate
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Lucy-my God, Lucy was a brilliant, brilliant clown, but she was terribly miscast. But we would have never gotten the money for the production if she hadn't wanted to do it.
– Beatrice Arthur
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You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
– Beatrice Arthur
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I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.
– Sean Astin
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
– Nancy Astor
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
– W. H. Auden
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You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
– W. H. Auden
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The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
– Norman R. Augustine
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The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
– Marcel Achard
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My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.
– Andre Agassi
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
– Jean Louis Agassiz
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We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
– Peter Akinola
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I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
– Karen Allen
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There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain.
– Lord Amherst
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Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.
– Max Amsterdam
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Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
– Anacreon
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If you want to write, do so. If you don't want to hold down a full time job in order to have the comfort to write, give up the idea of being a composer of concert music, unless you can learn to be happy in poverty, marry the rich, inherit the wealth, or otherwise fall into money.
– Beth Anderson
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On packing: Lay out all you clothes and all your money. Then, take half the clothes and twice the money.
– Susan Butler Anderson
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There were no Indian actors from England of note earning money or having a career.
– Naveen Andrews
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I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.
– Gennaro Anguilo
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Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
– Marc Anthony
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
– Walter Bagehot
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I was a guy who grew up with no money and no special qualities. When you become successful in this business and you've got a lot of money, it's a very potent blend. You meet beautiful women, you've got a lot of time on your hands, people pay attention to you a lot more than you deserve - I acted out on that as much as most young guys do who come to that place.
– Alec Baldwin
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I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.
– Stephen Baldwin
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A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.
– William Baldwin
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The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.
– Ernie Banks
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I made my money by selling too soon.
– Bernard Baruch
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
– Bernard Baruch
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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
– Charles Baudelaire
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
– Aphra Behn
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
– Saul Bellow
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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
– Arnold Bennett
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Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.
– William John Bennett
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Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
– Bo Bennett
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
– Edgar Bergen
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The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
– Rudolf Bing
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Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
– Joey Bishop
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People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
– Frank Black
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The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.
– Matt Blunt
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The only reason to have money is to tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.
– Humphrey Bogart
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You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?
– Barbara Boxer
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Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
– Bill Bradley
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The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
– Marlon Brando
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Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money.
– Paul Bremer
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Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.
– Paul Bremer
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I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.
– Jeremy Brett
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The House Office Building is costing more than the combined cost of the Great Pyramids at Giza, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Three of the Seven Wonders of the World combined cost less money than an office building for 200 congressmen.
– David Brinkley
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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
– Norman O. Brown
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The government is a bunch of whores. Look at the people who pay to elect the government. Small farmers or cooperative activists do not pay anything other than a microscopic speck of the money spent to elect Congress.
– Jerry Brown
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Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
– Charles Farrar Browne
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Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.
– Craig Bruce
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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
– Anthony Burgess
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But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.
– Jeb Bush
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Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
– Samuel Butler
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It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
– Robert Byrd
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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
– Lord Byron
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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
– Roger Babson
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I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.
– Beryl Bainbridge
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Some people believe state government is being run so efficiently that no money can be saved. I am not one of those people.
– Haley Barbour
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Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
– Eddie Barclay
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The people who make money the be-all and end-all of their lives are always punished for it by being exceptionally boring individuals.
– Robert Barnard
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Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
– Richard Barnfield
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You go back and tell Brigham Young that I'll give up the Lord's money when he sends me a receipt signed by the Lord, and no sooner.
– Sam Brannan
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I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
– George Brett
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It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.
– Paul Bryant
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The exercise of the right inherent in every sovereign state of creating and issuing a sufficiency of money to make financially possible what is physically possible and morally desirable, would enable as much real wealth to be brought into existence as, with its immense inventive and scientific potential, it is capable of making.
– Arthur Bryant
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There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.
– James Caan
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I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.
– Dean Cain
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I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
– Maria Callas
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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
– Julia Cameron
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But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.
– Maria Cantwell
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