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malthaussen

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14. I'll see your "Can't Buy Me Love" and raise you "Money"
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 01:17 PM
Nov 2015


I prefer the adage "Money can't buy love, but it can sure-enough rent a fair piece of it."

-- Mal

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All evil? jeepers Nov 2015 #1
Love of money is the root of all evil. Agnosticsherbet Nov 2015 #2
+1 Money is not the issue - it is the LOVE of it (and loving the power that it brings) which is jonno99 Nov 2015 #5
Leave it to an agnostic to get the adage right n/t malthaussen Nov 2015 #13
Well, I would think Malthusian know that adage Agnosticsherbet Nov 2015 #16
A critical distinction. DirkGently Nov 2015 #15
Individualism, and the ideology of individual success plays into the whole reverence of wealth Agnosticsherbet Nov 2015 #17
Let's test that theory. FLPanhandle Nov 2015 #3
haha GummyBearz Nov 2015 #6
Not money--the LOVE of money. Greed. Avarice. There's where your problem lies. MADem Nov 2015 #4
Can't Buy Me Love :) pinboy3niner Nov 2015 #7
Gimme Some Money Throd Nov 2015 #11
I'll see your "Can't Buy Me Love" and raise you "Money" malthaussen Nov 2015 #14
Civilization is a resource concentration mechanism The2ndWheel Nov 2015 #8
The LOVE of money is the root of all evil. Throd Nov 2015 #9
I thought evil was the root of all money. Gidney N Cloyd Nov 2015 #10
I've heard that the lack of money -- poverty -- is the root of all evil whathehell Nov 2015 #12
No. I'd say that it is more like a crucible. Shandris Nov 2015 #20
Just as the original sin was not "Sex", but the Fear of being exposed in public... haele Nov 2015 #18
Selfishness is the root of all evil – which includes greed and bigotry. cpwm17 Nov 2015 #19
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