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Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected...more

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The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't ...more

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Funny thing how it is. If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it's part of him, and it's like him. If he owns property only so he can ...more

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I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it whether you need it or not.-Uncle John

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Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah," Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else.

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We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.Yes, but the bank is only made of men.

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They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

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Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them w...more