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• We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

  Alan Keyes

  Cutting, Government, Cards

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• Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.

  Simon Cowell

  Suicide, Running, Pain

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• Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Cutting, Republican, Spending

  "Meet The Press" with David Gregory, votesmart.org. August 1, 2010.

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• I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

  Martial

  Granted, Refuse, Asks

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.580

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• Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.

  Kin Hubbard

  Home, Thinking, Fellows

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• No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Hospitality, Influence

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.153

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• The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Giving, Way

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2780, e-artnow

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• The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

  John Podhoretz

  Sound, Pay, Problem

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• As long as we keep our fundamentals strong...the dollar (and) U.S. borrowing costs will do just fine.

  Lawrence Summers

  Strong, Long, Dollars

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• It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Permit, Difficult

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.33, Graphic Arts Books

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• The borrower runs in his own debt.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Debt, Borrowers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.295, Library of America

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• To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.

  Hsu Yun

  Strong, Buddhist, Heart

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• I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Debt, Disease

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [268]

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Success, Philosophy

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 15, 2017

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• To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

  Samuel Johnson

  Return, Forget, Theft

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• I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

  Mark Udall

  Children, Parent, Earth

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• Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Thinking, People, Wish

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

  Thomas Tusser

  Debt, Borrowed Money, Goeth

  Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.2

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• Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Money, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Regret, Yesterday, Optimism

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• You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are.

  Heinrich Heine

  Iron, World, Should

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.86

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• Reading means borrowing.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

  Paul Ryan

  Way, Prosperity, Spending

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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