"Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver."

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"Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver."

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Suze Orman, American Author

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., American Entertainer

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

Ralph W. Sockman, American Leader

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"If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty."

David Korten, American Activist

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"Wars are made to make debt."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

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

Ernie Banks, American Athlete

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"But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay."

Euripides, Greek Poet

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

Louie Anderson, American Comedian

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"Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as "deficits as far as the eye can see." But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?"

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"This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation."

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"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."

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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

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"The echo of a platitude."

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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

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"Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about."

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