"Ambition's debt is paid."
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"My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted."
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"Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity."
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"Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present."
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"The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty."
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"Debt is a bottomless sea."
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"Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer."
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"We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier."
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"To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly."
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"Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension."
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"It is important to combine structural reforms and good fiscal stewardship with a growth strategy, because when your economy's growing and more revenue's coming in, that helps relieve debt."
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"I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay."
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"The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy."
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"The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems."
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"The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument."
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"Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static."
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"Industry pays debts, while despair increases them."
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"Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities."
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"He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency."
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"Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification."
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