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What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of

What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. – Robert Graves

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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. – Robert Graves

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Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale. – Robert Graves

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We all know that Americans love their statistics – in sport, obviously. And in finance too. – Evan Davis

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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? Its to see my dividends coming in. – John D. Rockefeller

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The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. – Alfred Marshall

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Finance, like time, devours its own children. – Honore de Balzac

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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. – John Boyd Orr

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