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“When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, whi...”
“I don't think there's anything wrong with borrowing someone else's faith to get you through until you get enough on your own.”
“There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because h...”
“When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.”
“Preserving cultural diversity is considered a supreme virtue today, but the members of the diverse subcultures don't always see it that way. People have wants and needs, and when cultures rub shoul...”
“Then it is your opinionthat a man should never--Invest in portable property in a friend? Certainly he should not. Unless he wants to get rid of the friend- and then it becomes a question how much p...”
“Borrow a little and if you can't pay it back, it's your problem. Borrow a lot and if you can't pay it back, it's the lenders problem.”
“The present presses automatically on you. The future does not. To attend to the future requires bandwidth, which scarcity taxes. When scarcity taxes our bandwidth, we become even more focused on th...”
“Debt is a bottomless sea.”
“Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.”
“The borrower is servant to die lender.”
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”
“Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.”
“Then it is your opinion…that a man should never-“-Invest in portable property in a friend?”… “Certainly he should not. Unless he wants to get rid of the friend- and then it becomes a question how m...”
