"In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished."
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"To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones."
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"Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted."
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"I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due."
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"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last."
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"Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer."
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"It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay."
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"Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream."
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"Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills."
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"First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too."
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"A man in debt is so far a slave."
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"Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed."
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"Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt."
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"Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky."
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"If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself."
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"I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable."
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"Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger."
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"Good debt is a powerful tool, but bad debt can kill you."
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"No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt."
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"Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down.""
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