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• How bout you and all your morals in that outfit that you borrowed/Make the most out of tonight and worry bout it all tomorrow.

  Drake

  Hangover, Worry, Tonight

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• Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

  Aravind Adiga

  School, Library, Members

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• Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.

  Augustus William Hare

  Moon, Light, Two

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.301

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• Bless his heart, I have respect for Mitt Romney, but I do not have respect for what he has done through this debt increase debate. He did this. He waited until it was a done deal that we would increase the debt ceiling, and more money would be spent, more money borrowed and then spent on bigger government. And then he came out and he made a statement, that he didn't like the deal after all. You know, you can't defer an issue and assume that the problem is going to be then avoided.

  Sarah Palin

  Heart, Issues, Government

  "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. August 2, 2011.

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• True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.

  George Herbert

  Beauty, Flames, True Beauty

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• The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, People, Assuming

  Mark Driscoll (2013). “A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?”, p.16, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.

  Charlton Laird

  Latin, Made, Grammar

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• I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.

  Albert Gubay

  Half, Pounds, Made

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• Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Poverty

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• A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason some people claim not to have partners: "All the good ones are taken."

  Thomas C Foster

  Witty, Taken, Play

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• Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

  James Hunter

  War, Top Down, Pyramids

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.56, Crown Business

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• The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Flower, Here And There, Thyme

  "Essays", Book I, Chapter XXV, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 598-600, 1922.

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• Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stealing, Plagiarism, Glad

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt, Orlando Williams Wight (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters”, p.389

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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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• Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

  Meher Baba

  Strength, Greatness, Weakness

  Meher Baba's message dictated to Sanjeeva Reddy at Guruprasad (June 6, 1960), as quoted in Charles Benjamin Purdom "The God Man: The Life, Journeys and Work of Meher Baba with an Interpretation of His Silence and Spiritual Teaching" (p. 353), December 25, 1964.

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• You've taxed too much, borrowed too much and are a roadblock to reform.

  David Cameron

  Reform, Too Much, Roadblock

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• Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

  Maria Mitchell

  Acceptance, Men, Thinking

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

  Joe Bradley

  Landscape, Paint, Turns

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel; and as we have historical assurance that the chapters in Matthew's gospel which contain the miraculous birth are an after addition not in the earliest manuscripts, it seems probable that these two poetical chapters in Luke may also be unhistorical, and borrowed from the Egyptian accounts of the miraculous births of their kings.

  Samuel Sharpe

  Kings, Two, Historical

  Samuel Sharpe (1863). “Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity, with their influence on the opinions of modern Christendom”, p.19

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• Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Art, Mean, Swimming

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• Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Doubt, Information, Temples

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.144

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• If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one – a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'.

  Idries Shah

  Men, Law, Giving

  Idries Shah (2015). “The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin”, p.15, ISF Publishing

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• Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Genius, Originality, Poetic

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.251, Delphi Classics

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• The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, People, Sound

  William Jennings Bryan (1896). “The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896”

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• I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

  William S. Burroughs

  Marijuana, Mushrooms, Addiction

  "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness". William S. Burroughs' introduction to his book "Naked Lunch" (pp. 199-201), 1960 edition.

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