“Money is a game. It's only real to the people who work for it. It's a monopoly game. It's a game of paper. It's all on paper.”

—  Charles Manson

Interview https://youtube.com/watch?v=CNPW0WHIAvo?t=872 by Penny Daniels (1989)

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American criminal and musician 1934–2017

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