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“There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.”

Facts Would Be Balance Conscience Accounts Paid Dues Instance Occasions Creditors Debtors Saying Less

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.”

Past Force Nations Behinds Accounts Paid

Author:William Pfaff

“At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.”

Justice Accounts Paid Debt Hereafter Paid In Full

Author:John H. Vincent

“Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.”

Mean Success Culture Interest Talent Position Accounts Paid Fancy Sanity Superficial

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Once the settlement is completed, the credit card company will report it to the credit bureaus, which will then make a notation on your credit report that that account was paid by settlement. That's going to signal to future lenders that you left the last guy hanging. That's why, as with bankruptcy, debt settlement is an extreme option, one you shouldn't take lightly. It's not just an easy, cheap way to eliminate debt.”

Way Lasts Guy Left Easy Company Accounts Paid Extremes Credit Debt Cards Reports Signals Credit Card Settlement Bankruptcy Lenders Debt Settlement

Author:Jean Chatzky

“The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a myth. Only when we part with this myth and grasp the political nature of the market and the collective nature of individual productivity will we be able to build a more just society in which historical legacies and collective actions, and not just individual talents and efforts, are properly taken into account in deciding how to reward people.”

People Ifs Able Action Political Individual Effort Taken Talent Accounts Paid Historical Rewards Myth Productivity Accepted Legacy Collectives Assertion Collective Action Individual Talent

Author:Ha-Joon Chang

“Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.”

Men Pay Destiny Accounts Paid Faults Pity Dealings

Book:Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: Picture of Dorian Gray

“Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately, that of their parents and of the taxpayers). If students happen to learn anything useful while enrolled, that's good, but if not, as long as they've paid their bills, that's not the university's problem.”

Ifs Mind Long Problem Happens Used Parent Students College Concern Accounts Paid Bills University Used To Be Chiefs Taxpayers Bank Accounts Colleges And Universities

Author:George Leef

“Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.”

Process Natural Views Study Students Evolution Argument Accounts Paid Data Preserves Experts Fancy Selection Fossils Natural Selection Stasis

Author:Stephen Jay Gould