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"Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You are going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod."
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friendship
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knife
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Rick Riordan |
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
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money
motivational
copperfield
micawber
pecuniary
dickens
frugality
income
debt
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Charles Dickens |
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[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
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money
debt
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Charles Dickens |
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The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.
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gift
debt
thankful
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Robert Fulghum |
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The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.
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noblesse-oblige
repay
stranger
debt
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Robert Fulghum |
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"She says, "Do you have any rubbers?" I say, I thought she was barren. "Sure, I'm sterile," she says, "but I've had unprotected sex with a million guys. I could have some terrible fatal disease." I say that would only be a problem if I wanted to live a lot longer. Fertility says, " That's how I feel about my giant credit card debt." So we have sex. If you could call it that."
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sex
credit-card-debt
stds
std
sterility
debt
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not money. Therefore anything that concerns the handling of the land also concerns me.
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money
wealth
nature
debt
food
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Margaret Atwood |
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When I visited , in 1948, at his home in Aylot, a suburb of London, he was extremely anxious for me to tell him all that I knew about . During the course of the conversation, he told me that had made a tremendous impression upon him, and had exercised an influence upon him probably greater than that of any other man. He seemed particularly anxious to impress me with the importance of 's influence upon his intellectual endeavors and accomplishments. In view of this admission, what percentage of the greatness of belongs to ? If 's influence upon so great an intellect as was that extensive, what must have been his influence upon others? What seed of wisdom did he plant into the minds of others, and what accomplishments of theirs should be attributed to him? The world will never know. What about the countless thousands from whom he lifted the clouds of darkness and fear, and who were emancipated from the demoralizing dogmas and creeds of ignorance and superstition? What will be 's influence upon the minds of future generations, who will come under the spell of his magic words, and who will be guided into the channels of human betterment by the unparalleled example of his courageous life? The debt the world owes can never be paid.
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influence
fear
darkness
wisdom
george-b-shaw
george-bernard-shaw
george-shaw
ingersoll
robert-g-ingersoll
robert-green-ingersoll
robert-ingersoll
shaw
praise
greatness
debt
ignorance
respect
superstition
honor
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Joseph Lewis |
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Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.
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story
debt
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Margaret Atwood |
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Always remember this, Henri. Men trade for profit. They are driven by greed. But debt is about fear, and fear is stronger than greed. The true power, the weapon that defeats all others, is debt. Fools search for gold. The wise man studies debt. That is the key to all business.
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greed
fear
debt
power
fools
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Edward Rutherfurd |
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The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle.
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money
motivation
empowerment
success
life
finances
recession
stay-woke
wages
debt
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Brandi L. Bates |
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I am not speaking strictly of slavery here, but of that process that dislodges people from the webs of mutual commitment, shared history, and collective responsibility that make them what they are, so as to make them exchangeable--that is, to make it possible to make them subject to the logic of debt. Slavery is just the logical end-point, the most extreme from of such disentanglement. But for that reason it provides us with a window on the process as a whole. What's more, owing to its historical role, slavery has shaped our basic assumptions and institutions in ways that we are no longer aware of and whose influence we would probably never wish to acknowledge if we were. If we have become a debt society, it is because the legacy of war, conquest, and slavery has never completely gone away. It's still there, lodged in our most intimate conceptions of honor, property, even freedom. It's just that we can no longer see that it's there.
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war
slavery
commercial-markets
social-imagination
conquest
property
debt
capitalism
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