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"Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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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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"I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do."

George G. Simpson, American Scientist

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

Euripides, Greek Poet

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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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"It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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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?"

Karl Rove, American Politician

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"I spend my life constantly calling in 'imaginary' debts that aren't owed to me in order to avoid the 'real' debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes."

John Boehner, American Politician

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"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."

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"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."

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"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays."

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"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."

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"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."

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"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."

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"All great art is born of the metropolis."

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"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."

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"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."

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"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."

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