"A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays."
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"Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts."
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"Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society."
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"Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents."
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"A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten."
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"Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn."
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"Of course I'm troubled by huge consumer debt levels - we've pushed consumer credit very hard in the US. Eventually, if it keeps growing, it will stop growing. As Herb Stein said, "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." When it stops, it may be unpleasant. Other than Herb Stein's quote, I have no comment. But the things that trouble you are troubling me."
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"Be careful when you take on debt. If you take on debt personally, make sure it is small. If you take on large debt, make sure someone else is paying for it."
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"Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans."
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"A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt."
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"We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet."
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"But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay."
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"Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime."
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"When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet."
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"Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle."
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"Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth."
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"When I had dinner with a friend or a loved one and one of you pays for the check and the other says, "I owe you next time." I like to think that we're eternally even - that they don't owe me anything or I don't owe them anything if you have a connection with somebody or a love with somebody. I like to think that there's no debt to pay. You love each other and you're happy to pay for dinner every time."
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"I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
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"Lying rides upon debt's back."
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"I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation."
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