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  • #1
    “Money is evil; its absence is the worst evil.”
    Abdihakim Bahnan

  • #2
    “Warm is warm.”
    Lailah Gifty Akita

  • #3
    Evelyn Waugh
    “It [being very rich] used to worry me, and I thought it wrong to have so many beautiful things when others had nothing. Now I realize that it is possible for the rich to sin by coveting the privileges of the poor. The poor have always been the favourites of God and his saints, but I believe that is is one of the special achievements of Grace to sanctify the whole of life, riches included.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #4
    Frantz Fanon
    “The more the people understand, the more watchful they become, and the more they come to realize that finally everything depends on them and their salvation lies in their own cohesion, in the true understanding of their interests, and in knowing who their enemies are. The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized, protected robbery.”
    Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

  • #5
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.”
    Gordon B. Hinckley

  • #6
    “When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.”
    Israelmore Ayivor

  • #7
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    Frederick Lewis Donaldson

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy
    Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #10
    Dorothy Parker
    “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #11
    Benjamin Franklin
    “A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #12
    Douglas Adams
    “This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #13
    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #14
    “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”
    Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within: The Power Within

  • #15
    J.K. Rowling
    “As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #16
    Epictetus
    “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
    Epictetus

  • #17
    Amit Ray
    “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”
    Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

  • #18
    “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
    Anne Herbert

  • #19
    Groucho Marx
    “While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #20
    W.B. Yeats
    “Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
    Enwrought with golden and silver light,
    The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
    Of night and light and the half light,
    I would spread the cloths under your feet:
    But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
    I have spread my dreams under your feet;
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
    William Butler Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds

  • #21
    Will Rogers
    “Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”
    Will Rogers



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