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Borrowing 40 cents out of every dollar we spend for missiles or food stamps is unsustainable. And being indebted for generations to China and OPEC does not make American a stronger nation.

~Dick Durbin

Topics: American Being Borrowing Cents China Does Dollar Every Food Food Stamps Generations Indebted Make Missiles Nation Opec Out Spend Stamps Stronger Unsustainable

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The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Also Borrowing Debt Degrading Future Human Long Long Way Massively Meeting Money Needs Only Present Real Resources Ultimately Up Way Wealth Which World

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

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Begging Better Borrowing Interest Just Lending Much Stealing Than

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We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

~Douglas Alexander

Topics: Approach Borrowing Our Sensible Set Spending Taxation Way

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While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs.

~Elaine Chao

Topics: Against Assets Available Borrowing Come Conventional Conventional Wisdom Cost Credit Even Forms Higher Limited Means Much Needs Often Other Own Realization Retirement Savings Sentiment Shifted Toward Urgent While Wisdom

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I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

~Emily Mortimer

Topics: Attempt Borrowed Borrowing Car Day First Friend Got Husband Literally Needed Other Persuade Three Tickets True

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As to the euro zone avant-garde, it must go towards more solidarity and integration: a common budget, a common borrowing capability, and fiscal convergence.

~Emmanuel Macron

Topics: Avant-Garde Borrowing Budget Capability Common Convergence Euro Fiscal Go Integration More Must Solidarity Towards Zone

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Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

~Ernest Holmes

Topics: Ages Best Borrowing Brings Enlightenment Every Highest Knowledge Mind Reality Science Sources Study Taking Together

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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

Topics: Bank Banks Borrow Borrowing Capital Cushion Effect Effectiveness Lend Lending Much No Wonder Operations Potential Profitable Reducing Relation Scale Tempting Too Too Much Up Wonder

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The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups 'borrowing' from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for their cultural practices throughout history.

~Franchesca Ramsey

Topics: Appropriation Been Borrowing Cultural Dominant Face Groups History Main Marginalized Oppression Practices Problem Throughout Who

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