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Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe. -- Mark Twain
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay. -- Euripides
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due. -- Will Rogers
I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt. -- Jim Flaherty
You never cash out a 401(k) or IRA to pay off debt, unless it's to avoid a foreclosure or bankruptcy. -- Dave Ramsey
Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment. -- Bobby Hull
Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt. -- Jennifer Dunn
When I get to Washington, the people of Florida are going to know I'm not going to spend my first year having fundraisers to pay off a campaign debt. -- Jeff Greene
I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP. -- Shia LaBeouf
If you put a purchase on a charge card, you're paying it off forever. You have to know how to pay it off before you go deeply in debt. -- Gregory Meeks
Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture. Do you have high-interest rate debt? Paying it off faster will save you a bundle. -- Jean Chatzky
There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills. -- Elizabeth Warren
When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. -- Cory Booker
In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn't believe it. -- Allison Anders
College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion. -- Hank Johnson
If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. -- Peter Welch
The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world. -- Joel A. Barker
The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
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. -- Helen and Scott Nearing
America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen. -- Peter Welch
Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard. -- Jon Meacham
Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe. -- Mark Twain
Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying. -- Stefan Molyneux
Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services. -- Michael Hudson
The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created. -- Javier Bardem
If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return. -- Mark Cuban
When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts. -- Joyce Meyer
Our country is losing so much in terms of energy, in terms of paying off our debt. -- Donald Trump
Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. -- George D. Prentice
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. -- George Dennison Prentice
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. -- Thomas Carlyle
By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Too many of us never understand what we owe to our dear ones until there remains no further opportunity of paying love's debt. -- J.R. Miller
Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. -- Charles Caleb Colton
And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology. -- Sinclair Lewis
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