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“What, then, is my reward?  That when I declare the good news, I may offer the good news without cost, to avoid abusing my authority in the good news.” – Apostle Paul –1 Cor. 9:18 – The BIBLE

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. – John Ruskin

If we continue to develop our technology, without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. – General Omar Bradley

People will pay more to be entertained than to be educated. – Johnny Carson

We make a living by what we get—we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

“This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.” – Lee Richardson on Howard Beale (Peter Finch) in NETWORK – Paddy Cheyevsky (Screenplay)

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. – Groucho Marx

Hollywood is a place where they will pay you $50,000 for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul. – Marilyn Monroe

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.  Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? – David Sarnoff’s associates on radio future in 1920.

Procrastination is like a credit card.  It’s a lot of fun until you get the bill. – Chris Parker

In a country well-governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of.  In a country badly-governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. – Confucius

Don’t spend $2.00 to dry clean a shirt.  Donate it to the Salvation Army instead.  They’ll clean it and put it back on a hanger.  Next morning you can buy it for 25cents! – Brilliant!

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff. – Frank Zappa           

A national sales tax also encourages savings and investments.  A national sales tax would radically change the way government does business, and it would also encourage everyone to be in charge of their own money.  It would slowly motivate people to relinquish their dependence on government entitlements and subsidies. – Russell D. Longmore – A TAX POLICY FOR A NEW NATION              

Beware of the woman who thinks much of her glory, but little of her reputation. – Victor Hugo

Most people work hard enough not to get fired, and get paid just enough money not to quit. – George Carlin

Nothing in fine print is ever good news. – Andy Rooney

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“So I bought a field in Anathoth from Hanamel, the son of my uncle.  I weighed out the money to him, seven shekels and ten silver pieces.  Then I recorded it in a deed, affixed the seal, called in witnesses, and weighed the money in the scales.” – Prophet Jeremiah – Jer. 32:9, 10– The BIBLE

Bank accounts are like toothpaste—easy to take out, but hard to put back in. in. – Robert Ackerstrom                

Credit card companies are no better than drug dealers.  They hang around our schools, prey on the young students, and entice with promises of shopping sprees and unrealistic interest rates.  When their victims are sufficiently addicted to the plastic substance, these ruthless banks, the equivalent of drug lords, jack up the interest rates, making it impossible for their victims to recover. – David A. Lloyd, Studio City, CA.

 “I’ve played so many hookers they don’t pay me the regular way anymore.  They just leave it on the dresser.” – Shirley MacLaine

God will help you with the high cost of living—but He will not help you with the cost of living high. – Doug Larsen

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing.  Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. – Glenda Jackson

It’s not so much that poverty breeds crime—crime breeds poverty! – Someone real smart 

The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.  The device is inherently of no value to us. – Western Union to Alexander Graham Bell when offered the patent in 1876.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather, and ask for it back when it begins to rain. – Robert Frost

Fettucini Alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults. – Mitch Hedberg

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition led to the rise of gang problems we have. – Drew Carey

“Prison not only rots a man, it preserves him.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle

Never do card tricks with the group you play poker with. – Murphy’s Laws on Life             

A national sales tax would collect revenue from citizens, aliens, illegals and tourists equally.  If you spend money in the new nation, you pay the sales tax. – Russell D. Longmore – A TAX POLICY FOR A NEW NATION                                  

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“For example, who of you wanting to build a tower does not first sit down and calculate the expense to see if he has enough to complete it?  Otherwise, he might lay its foundation but not be able to finish it, and all the onlookers would start to redidcule him.” – Jesus Christ –Luke 14: 28,29 – Disciple Luke – The BIBLE

A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you prove that you don’t need it. – Bob Hope

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. – Voltaire

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need—if I die by four o’clock. – Henny Youngman

A price is something you get.  A cost is something you lose. – Lois McMaster Bujold

Borrow money from pessimists.  They don’t ever expect it back. – Benjamin Disraeli

You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money. – P. J. O’Rourke

“They do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community.  Well, is it too much to have them live and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?  Anyway, my father didn’t think so.  People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped frustrated old man, they’re cattle.  Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you will ever be!” – James Stewart (George Bailey) to Lionel Barrymore (Potter) – IT’S AWONDERFUL LIFE – Francis Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra (Screenplay)

Buy land—they’ve stopped making it. – Mark Twain

Every new possession loads us with a new weariness. – John Ruskin                

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. – Pablo Picasso

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. – Shirley Jones

It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. – W. C. Fields

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. – Henry Ford

I’ve learned that money doesn’t buy class. – Andy Rooney                              

Kind words do not cost much.  Yet they accomplish much. – Blaise Pascal

No one ever drowned in his own sweat. – Ann Landers

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. – W. E. B. Du Bois

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For wisdom is a protection just as money is a protection, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves the life of its owner. – Solomon – Eccl 7:12 – The BIBLE

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. – Warren Buffett

No one has ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February. – Suze Orman

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenager. – P. J.  O’Rourke                                        

Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemies. – Spike Milligan                

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people that have too much money and power, and no empathy. – Alice Walker

If we don’t know at least some poor people, how can we identify, sympathize, criticize, or even love them? – Gary Pulliam                           

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.  A successful wife is one who can find such a man. – Lana Turner

Bank accounts are like toothpaste—easy to take out, but hard to put back in. – Me

Private jets cost a lot of money. – Donald Trump

The saddest thing I can imagine is getting used to luxury. – Charlie Chaplin

What a lot of things there are that men can do without. – Socrates

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life.  To be successful, it is very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head. – A.R. Rahman

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. – Kinky Friedman

Let your way of life be free from the love of money, while you are content with the present things. For he has said: “I will never leave you, and I will never abandon you.” – Apostle Paul – Heb. 13:5 – The BIBLE

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free.  If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. – Edmund Burke

The hardest thing to understand is income tax. – Albert Einstein                      

The world at large doesn’t judge us by who we are and what we know, it judges us by what we have. – Joyce Brothers

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The rich one rules the poor, and the borrower is a slave to the lender. – Solomon – Prov. 22:7 – The BIBLE

Rule # 1: Never lose money.  Rule # 2: Never forget rule # 1. – Warren Buffet

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. – Karl Marx

Money will not create success, the freedom to make it will. – Nelson Mandela

It’s better to live rich than die rich. – Samuel Johnson

I’ve noticed the very rich possess a form of hypocrisy, an aloofness, an elitism, that prevents them from mixing with or praying for the poor. – Gary Pulliam

Luxury ruins republics – poverty ruins monarchies. – Charles Montesquieu