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Comment author: satt 16 January 2014 10:40:09PM 1 point [-]

The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. [...] I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness – its deterrent power – is nullified by money.

Karl Marx