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What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

— Robert Graves

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.

— Justin Welby

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

— Joe Moore

At base, financial literacy is inextricably connected to control over one's future.

— Ann Cotton

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

— Honore de Balzac

I understand that finance can be very complex.

— Kevin Harrington

I always feel like 'as long as I'm doin' what I love to do, the money's naturally gonna come.' When you start thinkin' business and you start thinkin' 'What's hot? What's the wave? Who is hot? Let's get at that person,' it becomes a point where you're tryin' to strategize to make money. And that's always a gamble.

— Akon

The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.

— Pliny the Elder

✗Opposing Perspectives

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

— Jules Renard

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

— Mario Puzo

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

— Victoria Woodhull