"I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them."
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"Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend."
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"He that dies pays all debts."
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"Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word."
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"Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill."
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"The borrower runs in his own debt."
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"We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim."
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"You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity."
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"There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him."
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"Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow."
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"I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to make it even worse. So, it's basically highway robbery, and I think it's a tragedy."
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"The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis."
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"The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents."
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"I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt."
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"It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much."
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"Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them."
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"Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy."
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"The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s."
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"I heard a Lannister always pays his debts." "Oh, every penny....but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you."
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"What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong."
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