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“In Art, since the end of the 20th century, it is not work that pays, it is the nerve. En Art, depuis la fin du XXème, ce n’est pas le travail qui paie, c’est le culot. Extrait de : A livre ouvert.”

Book:Knife Paintings: Lozengist Movement

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“No, we do it for the money. 'And, because we above all must know the value of a human life, we do it for a great deal of money. 'There can be few cleaner motives, so shorn of all pretence. 'Nil mortifi, sine lucre. Remember. No killing without payment.' He paused for a moment. 'And always give a receipt,' he added.”

Money Humour Killing Pyramids Terry Pratchett

Book:Pyramids

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“After watching what has happened over the past fifty years in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and seeing the money that is to be made from such ventures, I wonder if the adage should have a corollary: 'Those who understand the lessons of history are only too happy to repeat them.”

Money History Libertarian

Book:The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

Source: The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

“And humans will accept any story, however outlandish, when there's something in it for them. Preferably something green that folds.”

Humans Motivation Money Acceptance Greed Story Outlandishness

Book:Artemis Fowl

Source: Artemis Fowl

“I begin to see how a post-money society would work in practice. When we are in paid employment, we are exchanging our labour in return for money in order to live within a money-based society, nothing more. Both sides in the labour-salary exchange are motivated by self-interest. But when we volunteer our labour for a cause, for a better world, we are not so much exchanging our labour as investing it directly into the world we want to see. Notes for Utopia: there will be no money when we get there.”

Money Society Labour Salary Self Interest Utopia Better World Volunteering Moneyless

Book:Life As A Kite

Source: Life As A Kite

“Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain, But never will be sung to us again, Is they remembrance. Now the hour of rest Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best.”

Death Poetry

Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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