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Money Quotes by Lewis H. Lapham
- Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they…
- We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may…
- A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely…
- Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is…
- Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property.…
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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
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- 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