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• I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

  Guy Fieri

  Dad, Kids, Trying

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• Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

  Jennifer Granholm

  Home, School, Cities

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• Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

  Voltaire

  Generosity, Empathy, Originality

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• Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Kids, Exaggerated

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “Kissing the Beehive”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Rain, Thinking, Wind

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• Broken locks and bruised knees and borrowed lipgloss and rain on the streets

  Rebecca Godfrey

  Rain, Broken, Locks

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• He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Women, Wife, Danger

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• Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

  John Wanamaker

  Snow, Courtesy, Shovels

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• How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

  Horace Walpole

  Littles, Circumstances, Vulgar

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• The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Long, United States, Financial

  "Interview With German Finance Minister Schauble: 'The US Has Lived on Borrowed Money for Too Long'". Interview with Michael Sauga and Peter Muller, www.spiegel.de. November 8, 2010.

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• Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

  George Santayana

  Men, Comforting, Opinion

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.108, 谷月社

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• Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Real, Character, Essence

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Body, Life Is, This Life

  "Beyonce Just Released a Very Personal Short Film on Feminism, Body Image, and Life" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. December 12, 2014.

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• About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Two, Months, Truck

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• People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they've woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I'll be talking, and will be interested in what I'm saying, but then someone-I'm convinced this what happens-someone-and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person-for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery is borrowed from a calculator to power a remote control, someone, always, is borrowing my head.

  Dave Eggers

  Phones, Talking, Control Someone

  Dave Eggers (2011). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• Avoid debt that doesn’t pay you. Make it a rule that you never use debt that won’t make you money. I borrowed money for a car only because I knew it could increase my income. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.

  Grant Cardone

  Cash Flow, People, Car

  "How to become a millionaire by age 30" by Grant Cardone, www.businessinsider.com. November 13, 2014.

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• It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective (except in substitution for investment by other entrepreneurs which would have occurred otherwise) at a faster rate than the public decide to increase their savings

  John Maynard Keynes

  Philosophy, Order, Entrepreneur

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.75, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.

  Amanda McKittrick Ros

  Writing, Peculiar, Feels

  Amanda McKittrick Ros, Frank Ormsby (1988). “Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader”, Blackstaff Pr

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• I borrowed my friends car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

  Emily Mortimer

  Husband, Car, Three

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• There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.

  Herman Melville

  Sea, Tides, Rolling

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.151, Cosimo, Inc.

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• So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Hours, Pleasure

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.175

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• It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Life, Brain, Mind

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• English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

  Mason Cooley

  Language

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• In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Book, Loss, Journey

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.80, Library of America

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• The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Eye, Autumn

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