"It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament."

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Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

Lewis H. Lapham

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“War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.”
“Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.”

Source : "Anything That's Peaceful". Book by Leonard Read, 1964.
“Maybe this is why I sleep only a few hours a month. I don't want to die again. This has become clearer and clearer to me recently, a desire so sharp and focused I can hardly believe it's mine: I don't want to die. I don't want to disappear. I want to stay.”
“It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make.”

Source : "‘Addicted to Fresno’ Director Jamie Babbit on Hiding Pregnancies and Embracing Diversity". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 1, 2015.
“This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didnâ€™t want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself.”
“I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan
“When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.”

Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power-to name only a few-as Aquinas and Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel. The incompatibility with one another of all the great systems of doctrine might surely be have expected to provoke some curiosity about their nature.”

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