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Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former. ↗

— James Madison

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It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. ↗

— Roger Moore

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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy. ↗

— Scott Nearing

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Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

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Debts and lies are generally mixed together. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. ↗

— John Buchan

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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. ↗