Borrowing Quotes - Page 5

• I am no longer going to go along with this idea that we're going to keep spending and borrowing and taking over and raising taxes, that I'm going to do everything I can to change things.

  Chris Matthews

  Ideas, Spending, Taxes

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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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• If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Faithful, Church, Notable

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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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• You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

  Wilbur Ross

  Reckoning, Spending

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• Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

  Kody Chamberlain

  Powerful, Inspiration, Ideas

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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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• Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, 'Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.' Surely what's good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.

  Maureen Dowd

  Kids, Years, Car

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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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• It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

  Evan Davis

  Effectiveness, Too Much, Wonder

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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 have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Ink And Paper, Design

  "Essays". Book by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Chapter XII; in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" (1922), p. 653-54, 1595.

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• Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

  Juvenal

  Light, Shining

  Juvenal, Persius (1817). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, p.333

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• Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.

  Will Cuppy

  Names, Would Be, Helping

  "I'm Not the Budget Type". Scribner's Magazine CII (6), p. 19-21, 1937.

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