#borrowing

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction. ↗

— Max Bill

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#better #borrowing #interest #just #lending

Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most. ↗

— Joe Moore

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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it. ↗

— Sonny Bono

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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. ↗

— Evan Davis

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The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing. ↗

— Julie Bishop

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Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile. ↗

— Timothy McVeigh

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