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David Brin

"She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted."

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"She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted."

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"Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt."

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"A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves."

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"I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them."

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"We all think we're going to get out of debt."

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"Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times."

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"While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans."

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"Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand."

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"Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare."

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"A promise made is a debt unpaid."

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"We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid."

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