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Money Quotes by Alan Watts
- What would you do if money was no object?
- What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?
- The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but…
- What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a…
- We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of…
- Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
- If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you…
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