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KEITH GUMBINGER You can't get sucked into using the money to fund the operating budget. That's like taking a home eq... DAVID SCHULZ The money you pay to the bank as interest has zero percent chance of it returning back to you. Save ... ZENG HAN JUN The fact you don't pay tax on the interest is important, but there is still a great deal of choice. ... JUSTIN MODRAY Pension obligation bonds is just a nice way of saying we're going to go borrow more money to pay for... DONNA FRYE Be like a sea water,which never changes its property ever if you add or remove salt to it. Whether m... KOWSALAPATHY Now people who pay retail for prescription drugs will probably have to wait another year to save mon... BILL FERRIS You should not leave your housing loan aside after getting it. Learn to keep track of it every six m... ZENG HAN JUN If you can spend the money now, and dedicate the money now, you will get a return, you will reduce t... DON DOBESH We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system... MITCH MCCONNELL There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like... JIM CARREY A lot has been said about trying to deal with competitive drivers and so forth, but it's like paying... GIL DE FERRAN Eighteen months from now, we won't have to pay for printing the forms, shipping the forms, or pay to... JAY BRADSHAW I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about... NINA LACOUR A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You ... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. Bu... WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT If you pay off your mortgage before retirement, you take a huge financial load off your shoulders. Y... SUZE ORMAN When life backs you into a corner and offers you no escape, when your friends, your lover, and your ... ILONA ANDREWS For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay mo... PETER SINGER Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. Bu... WILLIAM BENNETT I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw yo... DAMON GALGUT It's not a big deal if you're getting a refund. But if you owe money and don't pay on time, you'll e... MEREDITH HELGERSON If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. THEOPHILE GAUTIER If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. THEOPHILE GAUTIER If someone whom you lent money and won’t pay you back will always hate you. VIKRANT PARSAI Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. Bu... WILLIAM BENNETT Let's say your mortgage is $1,000 a month and you found an apartment at $1,200 a month. Allstate wil... JOE MCCORMICK Many firefighters will get at least a couple of days to go home and pay the mortgage and do the laun... ARNOLD HARTIGAN Yes! If you really love your beautiful garden of dreams, you will never allow any hungry beast to ha... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If its almost right its wrong. Pay attention to your hesitation RENAE A. SAUTER When you open a building, you incur all those budgetary concerns, and if we close the building, we d... JUDY DANIELS We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, thi... MITCH MCCONNELL You take this loan and agree to pay a slightly higher mortgage payment because you want the renovati... BRIAN CARR You take this loan and agree to pay a slightly higher mortgage payment because you want the renovati... BRIAN CARR If your mind is everywhere but in the now, put it on an imaginary leash: that way you will monitor a... JACENT MARY MPALYENKANA Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the mo... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ''If you will not lend me the ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON If you make a really good product that people want and are willing to pay for, money will come. FORREST MARS, JR. Never blame circumstances for your condition, you yourself are responsible for what you go through. ... MEHEK BASSI If you owe money, and you know you owe money, you have to pay 90 percent of your tax. JO ELLEN HUGHES The key to private mortgage insurance is, it lets you pay, obviously, less money down -- the idea be... JEFF LUBAR It is likely that in two weeks when the loan is due, they won't be able to afford to pay it off then... CHRISTOPHER PETERSON Take care of your soul; it will never lose its tournament if Jesus is the coach of your life. He wil... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Even if you feel like your debt is just never going to go away, think long and hard before declaring... ALEXA VON TOBEL If you have a 19 percent credit card and you pay it off you make 19 percent on your money. If you ha... JANE BRYANT QUINN It's very difficult to bring in players with the current rules and even if you want to bring in a lo... IAN HOLLOWAY We know that if you lose, you go home now. It's not lose and go look at it on film. If you lose, the... COREY BREWER Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situat... ECKHART TOLLE If we do this work now, we may save 10, 15 million lives. It gives you a lot of focus. I mean, how m... RICHARD GERE The often-used phrase “pay attention” is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that ... DANIEL KAHNEMAN Don't let the temptation of deductible mortgage interest steer you away from paying down your mortga... MARC FREEDMAN We truly are on the horns of a dilemma. If we don't raise pay, if we don't keep up, if we don't play... DON CROSBY Notice how fast the weeks go by. That's how fast your life will go. If you are not living your ideal... LORRIN L. LEE Your home loan may be the largest ticket item of your life. It is therefore logical and sensible to ... ZENG HAN JUN Basically, we've been borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, and now it's time to pay Paul back. We may n... HARRIET MILLER If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, ord... DEEPAK CHOPRA The new American dream is one of responsibility. What is the bottom-line number that you're goin... SUZE ORMAN Tomorrow will be new again, if we have the strength to reach for beauty and the spirit to pay its pr... TERENCE T. GORSKI Never assume your lender will take charge of your finance. Take a pro-active role in managing your o... ZENG HAN JUN We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want... IAN WILLIAMSON Medication will help reduce some symptoms, but taking medication over time won't eliminate them. We ... DONNA PALUMBO If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, an... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you want a safe compass to guide you through life, and to banish all doubt as to the right way of... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If you want a safe compass to guide you through life, and to banish all doubt as to the right way of... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If you walk a city, if you love a city, if you put in your miles and years with open heart and mind,... REBECCA SOLNIT We just don't have the money. It's a problem that has to be faced, but we're struggling right now ju... BERNIE TURNER Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the proble... BILL VAUGHAN Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the probl... BILL VAUGHN If I'm going to be the nagging mother type, if you have a lot of debt, especially high-interest cred... KAY BELL In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you sh... DANIEL KAHNEMAN I will never not be poor, so what does it matter if I don't pay a thing and a half this week instead... LINDA TIRADO If you go buy a CD, you can play it as many times as you want to in your home. If you serve it up in... VINCENT CANDILORA If you already have departed the gate and you now get caught up in a two- to three-hour weather dela... CAROL HALLETT The proposal would limit your ability to get any tax break for the mortgage interest you pay. Econom... JERRY HOWARD If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Now, it's personal, ... Now somebody will pay. JOSEPH CATALDO We must send a very clear message that if you enter our country illegally and then you commit one of... JOHN SHADEGG If you say, ‘Now I look like an old man’, you will start to look like an old man. If you say, �... DADA BHAGWAN Our viewpoint is that we fully expected the jury to come back with an amount of money like this. The... BILL PECORIELLO If you pay attention to the now you can recognize, experience and shape the wow. STEVE MARABOLI It's a cruel world, and unless you're blessed with some talent people will pay money to see, your fr... SCOTT DOUGLAS If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price ... GROUCHO MARX If you have no good drive in you, your life will not be steered through a good direction. It will mi... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If the outside [our outside circumstances] has become spoilt so be it, don’t let the inside [our i... DADA BHAGWAN If you consider honesty to be one of your values, then even if you are offered a good deal which wou... SUNDAY ADELAJA
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