“It also permitted me to understand the vicious character of money, the inhuman character of the power of money that renders man practically useless for society and for himself. And I think that the experience that I have lived is an experience that comforts me in our struggle to make the life of man more human, more beautiful and rich. I think that we can win this fight, but not alone. We can win it together, in unity.”

— Basile Mvé Engone

Reflections of bishops after our week of study on Social Credit https://www.michaeljournal.org/articles/pilgrims-of-st-michael/item/reflections-of-bishops-after-our-week-of-study-on-social-credit-3 (1 October 2011)

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Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1972

“I do more than reflect and respect this country, I fight for it… the question for Canadians is "Can we win?" Yes, we can win except when we are fighting ourselves.”

Joe Clark (1939) 16th Prime Minister of Canada

1983 Progressive Conservative Leadership Convention speech, June 10, 1983.

“The first thing [in credit] is character … before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it.… A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom. I think that is the fundamental basis of business.”

J. P. Morgan (1837–1913) American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector

Testimony to the Pujo Committee (1912)
Untermyer: Is not commercial credit based primarily upon money or property?
Morgan: No, sir; the first thing is character.
Testimony to the Pujo Committee (1912)

“I have learned by experience that no man's character can be eventually injured but by his own acts.”

Rowland Hill (preacher) (1744–1833) British preacher

P. 45.

“When I become a character in a movie or drama … I can think about the character only and not the complicated matters of my own life. I feel ecstasy in those moments and it’s what keeps me going as an actor. It’s not about the money, it’s not about the honor.”

Gong Yoo (1979) South Korean actor

Source: "Gong Yoo on becoming South Korea’s leading man" in CNN https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/28/asia/gong-yoo-talk-asia/index.html (30 August 2017)

“Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“I think for me anyway, the most successful horror movies that work are the ones that can create characters who you care about and that have characteristics that resonate with you and I think that is highly important, because if you can create characters that are likeable and people you can relate to, to me it makes the scares that much more scarier.”

James Wan (1977) Malaysian-born Australian film director, screenwriter and producer

James Wan interview: The Conjuring 2, Fast 7, Statham http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/james-wan/41373/james-wan-interview-the-conjuring-2-fast-7-statham (Jun 13, 2016)

“I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 24, “A Knight, Errant” (p. 207)

“It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

“Old man look at my life,
Twenty four
And there's so much more
Live alone in a paradise
That makes me think of two.”

Neil Young Old Man

Old Man
Song lyrics, Harvest (1972)

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