"I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid."
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"Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich."
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"Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender."
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"Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debts that can't be paid, won't be."
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"They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates."
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"Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal."
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"If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return."
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"Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?"
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"Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you."
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"Do what ya have to do to pay off yer debt with Heaven,’ he said, his concern for proper speech abandoned. ‘But ya do not die on me, ya understand? I can’t live without ya. Yer all I got, woman.’ Her breath caught in her lungs. ‘I don’t want to be here if you’re not."
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"If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!"
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"That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget."
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"You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value."
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"I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's solving a problem."
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"I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and put it on the debt."
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"So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time."
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