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Money Quotes by James Buchan
- By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
- Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
- Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or…
- To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and…
- At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own…
- In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money -…
- Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived…
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- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — Jane Austen
- Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. — Jane Austen