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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Done
Matters
Deciding
Always
Unless
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Commerce
Politics
Cash
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Motivated
Ever
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Nothing
Greed
Matter
Capitalism

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