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• Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.

  George Ade

  Money, Men, Risk

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

  Alan Bennett

  Hull, Moral, Congo

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Writing Home”, p.425, Faber & Faber

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• The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Mistake, Taken

  Article by John Richardson, December 01, 1957.

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• It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

  William Winwood Reade

  Art, War, Simple

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.38

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• We have the leading companies and the leading sectors in the advanced industrial world, we have an incredibly dynamic society, and we have high levels of entrepreneurship. And we have the best universities in the world. ... We also have impeccable credit. What we don't have is a political system that can take the simple measures to deal with our short-term deficit.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Simple, Political, World

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• Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

  James Ellis

  Luck, Action, Sometimes

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• Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Believe, Fate, Men

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins (2014). “Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?

  Leo Szilard

  Jobs, Fun, Ideas

  "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.

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• All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually be repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Eye, Names, Debt

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.37, Crown Business

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• I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.

  John Brunner

  New York, Home, Heaven

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.112, Macmillan

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• THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

  Benjamin Graham

  Agreement, Abuse, Elements

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham. Part III, Chapter XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit Control, p. 153, 1937.

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• The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

  Benjamin Graham

  Desire, Three, Volume

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part III, Chapter XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit Control, p. 154, 1937.

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• I think what grows the economy is when you get that tax credit that we put in place for your kids going to college. I think that grows the economy. I think what grows the economy is when we make sure small businesses are getting a tax credit for hiring veterans who fought for our country. That grows our economy.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Kids, Thinking

  The second presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.democracynow.org. October 17, 2012.

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• I've always felt that people's ears are wider than programmers are ever wiling to give them credit for. It's always been very important to me that you not have to turn me off because your kids are in the back seat.

  Donnie Simpson

  Kids, People, Giving

  "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.

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• I just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mirrors, World

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• I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do. I did not shoot - not a round, nothing. I went down praying to my knees - that's the last thing I remember.

  Jessica Lynch

  "Jessica Lynch Condemns Pentagon". news.bbc.co.uk. November 07, 2003.

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• Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Who I Am, Parent

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• When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our asses off, and I was sweating every single day, it was tough as hell. Now that it's CGI, 24 people work on Yoda, and I get all the credit -- I do nothing.

  Frank Oz

  People, Three, Tough

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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• You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.

  Dave Ramsey

  Games, Rewards, Cards

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• For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.

  Margaret Keane

  Husband, Home, Years

  "Everything You Need To Know About Margaret & Walter Keane, Tim Burton’s Latest Obsession" by Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.

  Sheldon Richman

  Education, School, Mean

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• Las Vegas is perhaps the most color-blind, class-free place in America. As long as your cash or credit line holds out, no one gives a damn about your race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, address, family lineage, voter registration or even your criminal arrest record. Money is the great leveler.

  Marc Cooper

  Color, Class, America

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• I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in what I consider to be the enviable position of all I have to do is come up with the idea and write an outline that makes it seem like it's a viable idea that will interest people, and then other people write the scripts -- and I become the executive producer or the producer, depending on how much involvement I have, and I get a creative credit and then move on to the next project.

  Stan Lee

  Moving, Writing, Years

  "Nuff Said - An Interview With Stan Lee". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. April 30, 2002.

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• Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.

  Jimmy Savile

  Men, Our Words, Habit

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• In my several years of international cricket, Tendulkar remains the best batsman I have ever bowled to. It's been a pleasure to bowl at the master batsman even though one hasn't always emerged with credit from the engagements.

  Allan Donald

  Years, Engagement, Pleasure

  "Sachin Tendulkar: Quotable Quotes on the Batting Legend". www.khaleejtimes.com. November 12, 2013.

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