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• It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

  Anuj

  Creating, Buying, Easy

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• We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Cutting, Lessons

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.379, Spectra

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• The black, hungry roses that Redd sent snaking towards the princess were easily squashed, the orbs and and unmanned, airborne blades of effortlessly waved off, and the spears of black energy (Alyss was flattered, her aunt borrowing this idea from her) pinned motionless to the air by Alyss's own white spears with no trouble.

  Frank Beddor

  Princess, Aunt, Air

  Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers

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• Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.

  Richard Brautigan

  Suicide, Night, Light

  Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But borrowing strength builds weakness.

  Stephen Covey

  Weakness, Personal Development, 7 Habits

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.44, Mango Media Inc.

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• When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.

  Jennifer Egan

  Missing, Everyday, Alive

  "Dealing with the Dead" by Jennifer Egan, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Cousin, Jobs, Like Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.376, A&C Black

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• I’m not stealing it. We’re stranded. This is called borrowing.” “This is called you’re crazy.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Crazy, Stealing, Stranded

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.462, Simon and Schuster

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• His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When she mentioned love, he responded with the statistical curve that indicates the automatic rise and fall in the annual birthrate. When she spoke of the great figures in art, he traced the chain of borrowings that links these figures to one another.

  Robert Musil

  Art, Fall, Curves

  Robert Musil (2017). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.302, Pan Macmillan

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• What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Eye, Hands

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• Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!

  Karen Marie Moning

  Book, Holy, Bibliophiles

  Karen Marie Moning (2015). “Burned: Fever Series”, p.219, Delacorte Press

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• Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields.

  James Elkins

  Art, Long, Criticism

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• I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Writing, Worry

  "Q&A with Kelley Armstrong, bestselling fantasy writer". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Art, Work, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4081, Library of Alexandria

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• It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

  Jenny Holzer

  Associates, I Can

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• There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Home, Debt, Financial

  Henrik Ibsen (2005). “A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.12, Prestwick House Inc

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• I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The college library helped me to develop a broader aspect on life.

  Linus Pauling

  Book, Writing, College

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• Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.

  Alan Greenspan

  Technology, Practice, Information

  "Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan". www.federalreserve.gov. October 19, 2004.

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• Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.

  Martin Mayer

  Men, Widows, Handsome

  Martin Mayer (1985). “The money bazaars: understanding the banking revolution around us”, Signet

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• When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the state was forced to check the extension of bureaucracy and to put a stop to public works, then and then only did the Italians realize what it meant to have allowed themselves to be made one of the most heavily taxed nations in the world.

  John T. Flynn

  Government, Dry Up, World

  John Thomas Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”, p.16, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes — saving.

  Mark Thornton

  Class, People, Saving

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• As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying power. ... Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. ... The other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped.

  Marriner Stoddard Eccles

  Men, Hands, Games

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• It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Decision, Action, Poor

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• If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, Trying, Doe

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

  John Milton

  Kind, Plagiarism, Good Authors

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