What then is the meaning of money, or for that matter, the meaning of possessing money? Most of those people who possess it are really possessed by it, obsessing by the urge to multiply it, and thus they nullify its meaning. For the possession of money should mean that one is in a fortunate position. One can afford to pay no attention to money, the means, but rather to pursue the ends themselves—those ends that money should serve.

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