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• My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber for a mandate he gave me after I left office... My biggest mistake in life, by far, was ever agreeing to be introduced to Karlheinz Schreiber in the first place.

  Brian Mulroney

  Mistake, Trying, Paying Taxes

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• CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has so sharply escalated in this country in contrast to Europe. (They're similar societies and it's bad enough there, but here we're in the stratosphere. ] There's no particular reason for it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Europe, Giving

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• Recipients of transfers tend to become less self-reliant and more dependent on government payments. When people can get support without exercising their own abilities to discover and respond to opportunities for earning income, those abilities atrophy. People forget - or never learn in the first place - how to help themselves, and eventually some of them simply accept their helplessness.

  Robert Higgs

  Exercise, Opportunity, Government

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• You might be a redneck if your satellite dish payment delays buying school clothes for the kids.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  School, Kids, Redneck

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• We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due.  Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it … Art isn’t about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art.

  Seth

  Life, Art, Jobs

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• We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.

  Kevin Drum

  People, Effort, Benefits

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• Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Blessing, Law

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Development aid is one of the reasons for Africa's problems. If the West were to cancel these payments, normal Africans wouldn't even notice. Only the functionaries would be hard hit. Which is why they maintain that the world would stop turning without this development aid.

  James Shikwati

  Would Be, Development, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.

  Dan Ariely

  People, Walks, Willing

  Dan Ariely (2013). “The Irrational Bundle”, p.63, HarperCollins UK

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• The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states will eternally drag the burden of these interest payments. It is obvious that sooner or later all these debts will be liquidated in some way or other, but certainly not by payment of interest and principal according to the terms of the contract.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Believe, Debt, Way

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.282, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Monetary reform, if it is to be genuine and successful, must sever money and banking from politics. That's why a modern gold standard must have: no central bank; no fixed rations between gold and silver; no bail-outs; no suspension of gold payments or other bank frauds; no monetization of debt; and no inflation of the money supply, all of which have proved so disastrous in the past.

  Lawrence Reed

  Successful, Past, Gold

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• Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Media, Practice

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• There are millions receiving government payments who have come to consider them as an earned right, who of course find them inadequate, and who are outraged at the slightest suggestion of a critical re-examination of the subject. The political pressure for constant extension and increase of these benefits is almost irresistible.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Political, Receiving

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.202, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The attributes of God have been carefully explored. But the Devil's attributes have been left vague. I think I've found one of them. It is he who puts the prices on things." "Doesn't God put a price on things?" "No. One of his attributes is magnanimity. But the Devil is a setter of prices, and a usurer, as well. You buy from him at an agreed price, but the payments are all on time, and the interest is charged on the whole of the principal, right up to the last payment, however much of the principal you think you have paid off in the meantime.

  Robertson Davies

  Thinking, Devil, Lasts

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• All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Fashion, Mean, Debt

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1994). “A Short History of Financial Euphoria”, p.21, Penguin

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• It is better that you live in a one-room garret with a leaky roof, than live in a large house, the mortgage payments of which are causing your colon to turn cancerous!

  Stuart Wilde

  House, Rooms, Mortgage

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.21, Hay House, Inc

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• The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

  Larry Burkett

  Years, Black, Slavery

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• There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Loss, Ungrateful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.21

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• In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Sick, Credit

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• God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon us in more respects than the payment of weekly wages; but the thing must be, nevertheless. Neither you nor any other master can help yourselves. The most proudly independent man depends on those around him for their insensible influence on his character - his life.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Character, Independent, Men

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1453, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.

  Henry Paulson

  Important, Typical, Settling

  Speech on the "Blueprint for Regulatory Reform", www.cnbc.com. March 31, 2008.

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• At last, Lady Evenstar, fairest in this world, and most beloved, my world is fading. Lo! we have gathered, and we have spent, and now the time of payment draws near." 'Arwen knew well what he intended, and long had foreseen it; nonetheless she was overborne by her grief. "Would you then, lord, before your time leave your people that live by your word?" she said.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grief, Long, People

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• If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

  Mark Twain

  Self Esteem, Humorous, Compliments You

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• In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Penalties, Given

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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• You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

  Chris Rock

  Liberty, Pay, Checks

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