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on Monday, March 5, 2018Eric Clapton Money Quote saying in the song ‘Riding with the King’ (with B.B. King) that he blew through his pay check at a penny arcade, even though he was well paid. Eric Clapton said:
“I dreamed I had a good job and I got well paid. I blew it all at the penny arcade” — Eric Clapton
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Chuck Grassley: Estate Tax Spend or Invest
on Monday, December 4, 2017Chuck Grassley Money Quote saying he believes that the rich are morally superior and deserve to keep everything in the family when they die instead of tax the wealth to contribute back to society. Chuck Grassley said:
“I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies” — Chuck Grassley
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Frederick Douglass: Three-Penny Tea Tax
on Tuesday, July 4, 2017Frederick Douglass Money Quote saying saying On July 5, 1852, in Rochester speech, “What to the slave is the 4th of July?” He asked why Americans just 76 years before risked their lives to avoid a tea tax, but thought nothing of slavery. Frederick Douglass said:
“You can bare your bosom to the storm of British artillery to throw off a three-penny tax on tea; and yet wring the last hard earned farthing from the grasp of the black laborers of your country” — Frederick Douglass
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Birthday February 14, 1818 – Died February 20, 1895
George Eliot: Every Penny a Purpose
on Saturday, September 17, 2016George Eliot Money Quote saying our priorities change as needs and desires evolve, especially when there’s no goal to focus our energy toward with love. George Eliot said:
“Mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. He had seemed to love it little in the years when every penny had its purpose for him; for he loved the purpose then. But now, when all purpose was gone, that habit of looking towards the money and grasping it with a sense of fulfilled effort made a loam that was deep enough for the seeds of desire” — George Eliot
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Malvina Reynolds: Lend Your Magic Penny
on Monday, June 20, 2016Malvina Reynolds in Magic Penny Money Quote from music saying making use of money increases it beyond original value and makes it grow. Malvina Reynolds in Magic Penny said:
“It’s just like a magic penny, Hold it tight and you won’t have any. Lend it, spend it, and you’ll have so many They’ll roll all over the floor” — Malvina Reynolds
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Susan B. Anthony: Fine an Unjust Penalty
on Thursday, November 26, 2015
Susan B. Anthony Money Quotation saying ‘NO’ in response to a judges fine of $100 for voting when women were not allowed to vote – so she was jailed by the government for that debt. A tax on feminism. Susan B. Anthony said:
“May it please your honor, I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper — The Revolution — four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government; and I shall work on with might and main to pay every dollar of that honest debt, but not a penny shall go to this unjust claim” — Susan B. Anthony
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Birthday February 15, 1820 – Died March 13, 1906
J. Paul Getty: Inhospitable Penny-Pinchers
on Friday, October 30, 2015J. Paul Getty Money Quotation saying the tales of installing pay-phones in his mansion for guest use disturbed him. J. Paul Getty said:
“A story to warm the hearts of all who take orgiastic delight in picturing the rich as inhospitable, ungracious penny-pinchers” — J. Paul Getty
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Steven Wright on Cost of Opinions
on Friday, April 5, 2013Funny Money Quotes: Doubling profit for those hearing your 2 cent opinions can cost you if you must express them constantly. Steven Wright said:
“Ever notice how it’s a penny for your thoughts, yet you put in your two cents? Someone is making a penny on the deal!” — Steven Wright
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