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It cuts us off from life, from vitality, from the alive sun and the alive earth, as nothing can. Nothing, not even the most fanatical dogmas of an ironbound religion, can insulate us from the inrush of life and inspiration as money can.

—D. H. Lawrence

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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

—Phyllis Bottome

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The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

—Unknown

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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

—John Maynard Keynes

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The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non- payment of debts is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

—Simone Weil

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Anglo-Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan's financial affairs were constantly in disorder, and debt was a chronic state with him. "Thank God, that's settled," he is reported to have said, handing over an iou to a creditor.

—Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

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Now that he was rich he was not thought ignorant anymore, but simply eccentric.

—Mavis Gallant

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I had a hard time at the bank today. I tried to take out a loan, and they pulled a real attitude with me. Apparently they won't accept the voices in my head as references.

—Steve Altman

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People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon envy and avarice.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver. 

—Ambrose Bierce

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Privilege, almost by definition, requires that someone pay the price for its enjoyment.

—Paula Ross

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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

—Hannah Arendt

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Credit has done a thousand times more to enrich mankind than all the gold mines in the world. It has exalted labor, stimulated manufacture, and pushed commerce over every sea.

—Daniel Webster

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No social system in any country will bring us happiness, health, and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

—Clement R. Attlee

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