"Worry is the interest paid by those who…" — George Washington
"Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble."
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525 Quotes by George Washington
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The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of…
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To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
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The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted…
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I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part…
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[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands…
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)…
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot…
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Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.
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To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
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Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere.
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The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion
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More Borrow Quotes
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I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal…
— Michele Bachmann
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts…
— David Cameron
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Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue…
— Jay Carney
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next…
— Ray Charles
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not…
— Unknown Author
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation…
— Abraham Flexner
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is…
— Peter Høeg
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already…
— William James
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Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains…
— Charles Babbage
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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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