Quotes with debts

  • Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • James Lendall Basford The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.
    Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882)
    James Lendall Basford
    American aphorist (1845 - 1915)
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  • Karl Marx Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • B. W. Powe Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
    Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 75
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Angela Merkel Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • William Shakespeare He that dies pays all debts.
    The tempest (1611)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare He that dies pays all his debts.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alexander Pope I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Lord George Byron It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Edward F. Halifax Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Samuel Johnson Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The street's alive as secret debts are paid,
    Contacts made, they vanished unseen.
    Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades
    Hustling for the record machine.
    The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands
    That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.
    Born To Run (1975) Jungleland
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Camilo Jose Cela When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
    Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside (1964 edition), Atlantic Monthly Press
    Camilo Jose Cela
    Spanish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1989) (1916 - 2002)
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  • William Shakespeare Words pay no debts.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Calvin Coolidge [On war debts incurred by foreign nations to the United States:] They hired the money, didn't they?
    c. 1925. Wit and Wisdom (1933)
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Simone Weil The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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