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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to

To give money to a woman – and here I must speak as a man – is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites. – James Buchan

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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, youre better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature – and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. – James Buchan

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Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think theyre fine fellows and dont need to explain themselves. – James Buchan

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Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. – James Buchan

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All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didnt need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. – Paul Auster

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If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldnt have to advertise them. – Will Rogers

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Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think theyre fine fellows and dont need to explain themselves. – James Buchan

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Money

President Obamas view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people! – Mitt Romney

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Always remember your kids name. Always remember where you put your kid. Dont let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers… for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces. – Amy Poehler

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I try to leave out the parts that people skip. – Elmore Leonard

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Thats the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you cant always have that. Youre gonna have times where you have to say no, and you wont be the most popular person in the house. – Martina McBride

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The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actors mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know. – Gene Barry

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