Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

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About Woody Allen

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Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning more than seven decades, he has written for film, television, and theater. As a screenwriter, Allen holds the record of most wins (3) and nominations (16) for the Academy...

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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

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I'm astounded by people who want to "know" the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

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You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

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I'm what you call a teleological existential atheist. I believe there's an intelligence to the universe with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey.

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Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

—G. K. Chesterton

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To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

—Bill Vaughan

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

—Anatole France

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