"If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with"
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"Give credit to whom credit due."
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"Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up."
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"It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it."
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"Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident."
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"When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them."
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"During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox."
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"In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons."
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"Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all."
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"What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't."
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"I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough."
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"The banks, because of mismanagement, because of huge risk taking, are now in very vulnerable positions. We can expect that we're gonna have to do more to shore up the financial system. We also are gonna have to make sure that we set up financial regulations so that not only does this never happen again, but you start having some sort of - trust in how the credit markets work again."
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"Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions."
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"Sometimes Hillary Clinton doesn't get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true."
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"If someone saw a movie of your life so far, when the credits rolled, would they say, “Wow, that was awesome?” Or would they scratch their heads and say, “I wonder what that was all about?"
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"Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer."
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"The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business."
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"I don't like credit cards. Let me triple underline that."
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"Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden."
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"My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully."
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