#payment

He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by the calculated chance of searching fire, even as he himself might be at any moment. Mathematics! Mathematics! Algebra! Geometry! When 1st and 3d Squads came diving and tumbling back over the tiny crest, Bell was content to throw himself prone, press his cheek to the earth, shut his eyes, and lie there. God, oh, God! Why am I here? Why am I here? After a moment's thought, he decided he better change it to: why are we here. That way, no agency of retribution could exact payment from him for being selfish. ↗

— James Jones

#bell #death #fear #geometry #machine-guns

This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan. ↗

— Dave Obey

#borne #care #charge #country #debt

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#deficits #discovered #forget #future #i

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#back #balance #countries #days #deficits

So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#become #center #currency #deficit #euro

I just acquired a choir. I bought it for a song.
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— Jarod Kintz

#buy #choir #consumption #deal #funny

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented. ↗

— Stephen King

#money #payment #professional #publishing #talent

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#begins #gratitude #himself #his #indebtedness

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#as far as #between #billion #far #federal

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#comes #doing #down #flow #future