"Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with."

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Source : David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.284

David Ricardo

#Tools Quotes #Materials Quotes

“Jackie [Kennedy] wore one of my dresses â€“ it was made from kitchen curtain material â€“ and people went crazy.”
“Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.”
“I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.”
“Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.”
“Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.”
“I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.”
“It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be livedâ€”forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.”
“I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.”

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