"One of the evils of money is that……" — E. M. Forster
"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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More Buys Quotes
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Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
— Andrew Carnegie
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The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce…
— Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr
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The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going…
— Tom Coburn
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
— Garrison Keillor
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then…
— Ezra Pound
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When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he…
— Milton Friedman
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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
— Cyril Smith
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Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private…
— Mae West
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I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I…
— Nat King Cole
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The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys…
— Burl Ives
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Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought…
— Dennis Miller
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