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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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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war. – James Buchan

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War
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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. – James Buchan

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Politics
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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age. – James Buchan

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Money
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I dont think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. – Orson Welles

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Money

If you dont have integrity, you have nothing. You cant buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing. – Henry Kravis

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Money

I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now. – Christina Ricci

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Money

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. – Terry Pratchett

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