"Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches."

-- P. T. Barnum

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“I just paint to fulfill an urge. When I don't have the urge, I just don't paint. This is not some stupid contest. But if it is, I feel like the winner that came in last.”
“There's no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in the people you know, than whether they are fun. Thinking about those friends who had given me so much pleasure but who had also caused me so much pain, thinking about that bright, cruel world to which they'd introduced me, I saw that there's a better way to value people. Not as fun or not fun, or stylish or not stylish, but as warm or cold, generous or selfish. People who think about others and people who don't. People who know how to listen, and people who only know how to talk.”

Source : William Deresiewicz (2011). “A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter”, p.100, Penguin
“Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.”
“I don't like the way I ever appear on TV.”

Source : "Poker legend Chris Moneymaker talks 'All In: The Poker Movie". Interview with Clark Collis, ew.com. March 23, 2012.
“The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?”
“Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship.”
“I was a little too young to be a hippie.”
“Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.”

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