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• No man's credit is as good as his money.

  John Dewey

  Money, Business, Men

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• TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Things In Life, Two, Benefits

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• You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

  Andrew Tobias

  Risk, Cards, Want

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• Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

  Robert B. Parker

  Writing, Giving, Too Much

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• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  Yasmine Bleeth

  Ghana, Making Love, Cards

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• Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Country, Agency, Ties

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• I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

  Arthur Miller

  Dare, Endure, Knows

  The New York Herald Tribune, March 31, 1954.

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• When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Sisterhood, Giving

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• A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Work, Rights, Littles

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.59, Oxford University Press

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• There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

  B. C. Forbes

  Satisfaction, Firsts, Truck

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• Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

  Kin Hubbard

  Clever, Work, Stupid

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• A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

  Jesse Jackson

  Famous Inspirational, Giving, Bags

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• Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

  Charles Lyell

  Money, Debit, Accountants

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• The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Success, Character, Responsibility

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.30, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Dad, Father

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "Freedom versus Authority in Education"

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• I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

  William Westmoreland

  War, Believe, Men

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• Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Wings, Paper

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.234

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• Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Law, Matter, Nations

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Money talks — but credit has an echo.

  Bob Thaves

  Money, Echoes, Money Talks

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• I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Successful, Matter

  To columnist Hugh Sidey. Quoted in Alistair Cooke The Americans (1980).

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• Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.

  Heather Dorff

  Gone, Matter, Forget

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• As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.

  Charlie Daniels

  Government, Doors, California

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• The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

  Theodor Adorno

  Powerful, Names, Pockets

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.128, Verso

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• Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, Giving, Done

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