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  • Oliver Stone Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.
    Oliver Stone
    American writer and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Calvin Trillin Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
    Alices Law of Compensatory Cash Flow in Alice, Lets Eat (1978)
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Henry Fielding Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Joseph Joubert Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Campbell Brown More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Albert Camus More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ben Parr More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Albert Camus More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Samuel Johnson More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Gabriel Heatter More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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  • Golda Meir Moses took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil.
    New York Times 10-6-1973
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Bill Buford Most chartreuse recipes call for one bird, a fat one, like a pigeon or a partridge, secreted inside the casing, a vegetable mold, which is then turned out onto a plate.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Marvin Gaye Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
    Marvin Gaye
    American singer and songwriter (1939 - 1984)
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  • Bill Gurley Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time a firm raises a new fund, so in between funds, which is most of the time, the partners are trying to outgun one another to make a stronger case for themselves.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Barry McGee Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • Virginia Woolf Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Aldous Huxley Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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