“I began to visit Armenia as soon as I had earned the necessary money.”

— William Saroyan

First Visit to Armenia (1935)

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American writer 1908–1981

Robert A. Hall (1946) American politician

I'm Tired (February 19, 2009)

“I ask Congressmen why they have such close relations with Armenia, and they say that the Armenian Diaspora gives them a lot of money. Is that corruption or not?”

Heydar Aliyev (1923–2003) Soviet and Azerbaijani politician

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“[the 1960's began] with a feeling of tremendous liberation, because I at last had space and money and time to work on a much bigger scale.”

Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) English sculptor

Interview with Alan Bowness, published in Bowness (ed.), The complete sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960–69, London, 1971, p. 7
1961 - 1975

“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)

“I intend shortly, God willing, a journey for Newfoundland to visit a plantation which I began there some few years since.”

George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (1578–1632) English politician and coloniser

To Secretary of State Sir John Coke, cited by John D. Krugler in English & Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 16 August 2004).

“but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“Here’s the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn more money, therefore men have less power (earning more money as an obligation, not an option). The opposite is true for women: Women earn less money, therefore women have less power; and women earn less money, therefore women have more power”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

the option to raise children, or to not take a hazardous job
Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 11.

“Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.”

Paul Newman (1925–2008) American actor and film director

Quoted in "Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures" - Page 110 - by Yann-Brice Dherbier, Pierre-Henri Verlhac - 2006

“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Source: 1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

“I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”

Rick Santorum (1958) American politician

Santorum targets blacks in entitlement reform
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