“Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.”

— Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker

Dolly Levi, in Act 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=MAEJ8VP0rMYC&q=%22Money+is+like+manure+it's+not+worth+a+thing+unless+it's+spread+around+encouraging+young+things+to+grow%22&pg=PA110#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: The Matchmaker (1954)

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American playwright and novelist 1897–1975

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“Well, I myself find that respect is like manure. Use it where needed, and growth will flourish. Spread it on too thick, and things just start to smell.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.”

Hans Blix (1928) Swedish politician

The Guardian, "Blix: I was smeared by the Pentagon" June 11, 2003 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,974998,00.html

“The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer

“The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young.”

Penélope Cruz (1974) Spanish actress

Cinema.com interview (2001)

“Neoliberalism is an ideology that reduces all values to money values. The worth of a thing is the price of the thing. The worth of a person is the wealth of the person. Neoliberalism tells you that you are valuable exclusively in terms of your activity in the marketplace.”

William Deresiewicz (1964) American literary critic

" The Neoliberal Arts: How College Sold Its Soul to the Market http://harpers.org/archive/2015/09/the-neoliberal-arts/," Harper's, September 2015, p. 26