Diogenes
Philosopher
"If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet."
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Loan
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan."
John Adams
Founding Father, Politician
"Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring."
Mervyn King
Economist
"When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers’ accounts."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it."
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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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"I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty."
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"Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed."
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"The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it."
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"Never loan your car to anyone to whom you've given birth."
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"Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education."
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"Only morons start a business on a loan?"
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"Question- Should I loan a small amount of money to a friend? Answer- If you are sure that you can, if necessary, spare both."
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