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Dollars! All
their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and
associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever
the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of
their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars.
Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by
their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and
knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to
dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end.
The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing,
which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good
Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had
for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft.
Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it
star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm
of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a
flag to them!
-- Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
In any country
where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will
be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to
possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth
will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those
who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If
their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be
well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune
they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest
fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who
don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to
conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the
outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of
poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for
all.
-- Denis Diderot
1713-1784, French Philosopher
A billion
here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real
money.
-- Everett M. Dirksen
1896-1969, American
Representative, Senator
When you don't
have any money, the problem is food, When you have money,
it's sex. When you have both, its. It's health, If
everything is simple, then you're frightened of death.
-- J. P. Donleavy
1926-, American Writer
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Money speaks,
but it speaks with a male voice.
-- Andrea Dworkin
1946-, American Feminist
Critic
When I chased
after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on
purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that
arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
-- Wayne Dyer
1940-, American
Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Successful
people make money. It's not that people who make money
become successful, but that successful people attract money.
They bring success to what they do.
-- Wayne Dyer
1940-, American
Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Money doesn't
talk, it swears.
-- Bob Dylan
1941-, American Musician,
Singer, Songwriter
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