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• Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.

  George Ade

  Money, Men, Risk

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Expansion, World, Wealth

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 8, Holy Dread, p. 197-198), 1989.

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• Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

  Alan Bennett

  Hull, Moral, Congo

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Writing Home”, p.425, Faber & Faber

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• It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.

  Gertrude Stein

  Men, People, Pay

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• The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Mistake, Taken

  Article by John Richardson, December 01, 1957.

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• It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

  William Winwood Reade

  Art, War, Simple

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.38

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• Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.

  Samuel Richardson

  Wish, Gains, Being True

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.19

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• Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah .

  Isaac Newton

  Christian, Hadrian, Reign

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.145

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• We have the leading companies and the leading sectors in the advanced industrial world, we have an incredibly dynamic society, and we have high levels of entrepreneurship. And we have the best universities in the world. ... We also have impeccable credit. What we don't have is a political system that can take the simple measures to deal with our short-term deficit.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Simple, Political, World

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• Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

  James Ellis

  Luck, Action, Sometimes

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• I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.

  Mordecai Richler

  Mom, Pain, Dad

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• Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Believe, Fate, Men

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins (2014). “Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?

  Leo Szilard

  Jobs, Fun, Ideas

  "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.

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• For me, everyone I write of is real. I have little true say in what they want, what they do or end up as (or in). Their acts appall, enchant, disgust or astound me. Their ends fill me with retributive glee, or break my heart. I can only take credit (if I can even take credit for that) in reporting the scenario. This is not a disclaimer. Just a fact.

  Tanith Lee

  Real, Writing, Heart

  Innsmouth Free Press Interview, www.innsmouthfreepress.com.

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• All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually be repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Eye, Names, Debt

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.37, Crown Business

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• I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.

  John Brunner

  New York, Home, Heaven

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.112, Macmillan

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• Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.

  John Collison

  Stripes, Banking, Way

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• THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

  Benjamin Graham

  Agreement, Abuse, Elements

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham. Part III, Chapter XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit Control, p. 153, 1937.

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• The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

  Benjamin Graham

  Desire, Three, Volume

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part III, Chapter XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit Control, p. 154, 1937.

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• I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.

  Bill Keller

  Thinking, Media, Pioneers

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2011.

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• Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

  Desmond Tutu

  Voice, People, Giving

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You know what higher interest rates mean. To you it means a higher mortgage payment, a higher car payment, a higher credit card payment. To our economy, it means business people will not borrow as much money, invest as much money, create as many new jobs, create as much wealth, raise as many raises.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Mean, Car

  William J. Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, articles.baltimoresun.com. August 30, 1996.

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• I think what grows the economy is when you get that tax credit that we put in place for your kids going to college. I think that grows the economy. I think what grows the economy is when we make sure small businesses are getting a tax credit for hiring veterans who fought for our country. That grows our economy.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Kids, Thinking

  The second presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.democracynow.org. October 17, 2012.

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• I've always felt that people's ears are wider than programmers are ever wiling to give them credit for. It's always been very important to me that you not have to turn me off because your kids are in the back seat.

  Donnie Simpson

  Kids, People, Giving

  "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.

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