“People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? You can't take it with you. The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.”

—  Martina Navrátilová

Martina (Alfred A. Knopf, 1985), p. 210.

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