Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes


Louisa May Alcott

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Money is not the root of all evil, it is the fruit. Humans are the root.
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If money is the root of all evil, then why do we make it?
STEVEN ESPINOSA
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
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Love of money is the root of all evil and the love of food is the root of all disease.
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Not having money is the root of all evil..
OLASOT
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN
The love of evil is the root of all money.
AMERICAN PROVERB
The want of money is the root of all evil.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The love of money is the root of all evil.
BIBLE
The love of evil is the root of all money.
PROVERB
The love of money is the root of all evil.
BIBLE, 1 TIMOTHY 6:10
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all k...
CRISS JAMI
The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
STUART WILDE
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SAMUEL BUTLER
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
HENRY FIELDING
if money is the root of all evil what is it doing in the offering pot in church
LIL TREYCO
“A question is the root to all evil, from there we can make assumptions!”
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER
If money is the root of all evil why do you ask for it in the church
LIL TREYCO
If you say that money is God, then you should also remember that it is also the root of all evil.
VIKRANT PARSAI
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I CHING
Money — the root of all evil.... Man needs roots.
ANONYMOUS
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Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.
MIKE GILL
Money, the root of all evil... but the cure for all sadness.
MIKE GILL
The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.
M.D. BIRMINGHAM
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It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
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Everything is in the root.
If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be a...
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Everything is in the root.
If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be a...
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Love of the world is the root of all evil
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It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil.
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The beauty of women is the root of all evil, it makes men lose their minds
JESUS BARRAZA
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Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.
DONALD KNUTH
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
BERNARD MELTZER
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
PATRICIA CORNWELL
It's no good to give money to anybody
who thinks money as the root of all evil.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt...
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To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root
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It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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The lack of money is the root of all evils.
MARK TWAIN
The love of money is the root of all virtue.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
DANIEL DEFOE
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS
Give a human being power, and he will think that he can control the whole world! This is the true ro...
PHILIP T. M.
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.
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EDWARD ABBEY
Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.
CRISS JAMI
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
AL GOLDSTEIN
Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apar...
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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality w...
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Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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Water is such a lifesaver into which we cannot breathe but without taking it into us we cannot live
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten afte...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, an...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
When Laurie said 'Good-by', he whispered significantly, "It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you coul...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have th...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Presently, out from the wrappings came a teapot, which caused her to clasp her hands with delight, f...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shap...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the be...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I could have been a great many things.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good. To be admired, loved, and respected. To...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an America...
LOUISA ALCOTT
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for...
LOUISA ALCOTT
My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding th...
LOUISA ALCOTT
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seem...
LOUISA ALCOTT
If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had bett...
LOUISA ALCOTT
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA ALCOTT
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA ALCOTT
Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests
LOUISA ALCOTT
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction tha...
LOUISA ALCOTT
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
LOUISA ALCOTT
My occupation is solely that of a painter. No one can argue with pictures (re descriptions in Uncle ...
LOUISA MAE ALCOTT
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
LOUIS MAY ALCOTT