"Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!"

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Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.91, Macmillan

Dana Gioia

“Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and lays claim to humility. I see hubris on both sides: a pretence that we could ascend to an objective account of the world, on the one hand, and a pretence that we have the resources to live and act without a sense of there being something to which we answerable, on the other. So both sides are 'villains'.”
“We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.”
“He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.”
“I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.”
“I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?”
“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.”
“In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.”
“One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.”

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