Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay) Before the sad accounting day.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
seneca the youngerThose of us born after that era (of World War II), or with little or no knowledge of those experiences, take freedom for granted. In fact, we give little thought because we are preoccupied with the here and now and yet we owe a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid because you (returned servicemen) paid the price in blood.
ratu joni madraiwiwiIf any one owe a debt for a loan, and a storm prostrates the grain, or the harvest fail, or the grain does not grow for lack of water; in that year he need not give his creditor any grain, he washes his debt-tablet in water and pays no rent for this year.
hammurabiLike almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
bill gatesA national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton[United States Senate Committee on Finance] Staff views it as inappropriate for a hospital to seek payment from a patient by sending a bill, (and) when payment is not received, to seek to recharacterize that debt as charity care. In addition, staff has found that the decision by some hospitals to include bad debt which often consists of very high charges from the (chargemaster list) provides a misleading and inflated accounting of a hospital 's charity care to policymakers and the public.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton'Is there no more?' She cries.'All this to love, and rapture's due, Must we not paya debt to pleasure too?'
Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl ofReligious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.
steve allenIs there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to be rendered to those to whom it has long been due; no charitable, humble, kind, useful deed, by which you can promote the glory of God, or good-will among men, or peace upon earth? If there be any such, I beseech you, in God's name, in Christ's name, go and do it.
arthur penrhyn stanleyIt is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.
william mackergo taylorReckless people have deluded themselves that this was a subprime crisis. But we have problems with credit-card debt, student-loan debt, auto loans, commercial real estate loans, home-equity loans, corporate debt and loans that financed leveraged buyouts... We have a subprime financial system, not a subprime mortgage market.
nouriel roubiniHe who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
seneca the youngerFirst in point of time and interest comes the mortgage debt, i.e. the claim for the return of money lent on the security of some tangible object. Such claims are among the earliest fruits of a commercial civilization, and are nearly always affected the same way, viz. by the deposit or pledge of the security with the creditor, to be redeemed or returned on the payment of the debt.
Meanwhile, the U.S. debt remains, as it has been since 1790, a war debt; the United States continues to spend more on its military than do all other nations on earth put together, and military expenditures are not only the basis of the government's industrial policy; they also take up such a huge proportion of the budget that by many estimations, were it not for them, the United States would not run a deficit at all.
David GraeberAmong my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.
william dunbarPeople in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.
tony bennScience does not know its debt to imagination.
ralph waldo emersonIf I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.
sean hannityDeath's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike — no bail, no demurrer.
Richard Brinsley SheridanWe can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
john buchanBlessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
herbert hooverSocial Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.
david riesmanIt shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
The United States has already passed on as the world’s economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed to public debt, the 'fore horse for oppression and despotism,' after which 'taxation will follow, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
Earl Wilson