"money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you."

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Source : Ama Ata Aidoo (1987). “The Dilemma of a Ghost ; Anowa: Two Plays”, Prentice Hall

Ama Ata Aidoo

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“I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you.”

Source : "Brewer's Famous Quotations" by Nigel Rees, London: Cassell, (p. x), 1994.
“I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.”
“The best policy is to declare victory and leave.”
“Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand.”
“Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.”
“The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.”
“the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.”
“What finally prompted me to lose weight was a view of myself in a hairdresser's full-length mirror when I was seated and wearing one of the salon's floral print robes and realized that I looked like a slipcovered club chair.”

Source : Mimi Sheraton (2004). “Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life”, Large Print Press

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