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“Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?”

Book:Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

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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

Source: Pyramids

“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

“Money doesn’t sleep. Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules or holidays, and you shouldn’t either.”

Money Financial Freedom Money Talks Financial Security

Author:Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Borrowing money from a friend, Always Interrupts the friendship flow, Especially after missing the payment deadline, More than two weeks in a row”

Friendship Money Flow Friend Two Weeks Borrowing Row Interrupts Payment Deadline

Author:Charmaine J. Forde

“The quickest way to end a friendship, is to lend money to a friend”

Money Friend End Lend Quickest

Author:Charmaine J. Forde

“Money lets you be who you really are.”

Money Confidence

Book:Cocaine Confidence

Source: Cocaine Confidence

“My future plans involve standing at traffic junctions with a cardboard sign, begging for money.”

Money Plans Future Standing Traffic Begging Sign Involve Cardboard Junctions

Author:Steven Magee

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