“The Challenge of Facts”, 1914 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914sumner.html.
Adapted from speech by S Rajaratnam, Minister for Foreign Affairs, at a dinner in honour of His Excellency Mr. Hans Dietrich Genscher, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
20 April 1977.
Macheath, Act III, sc. xi, air 57
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
“Love is for children. I owe him a debt.”
“Don't believe the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
Misattributed
Source: Often attributed to Twain, but sourced to Robert J. Burdette, Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/06/world-owes/
“The more debt we owe, the wealthier we are.”
From the interview which he gave to Jan Helfeld . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjbPZAMked0&feature=player_embedded
Section 48 of the Code of Hammurabi (translated by Leonard William King, 1910).
Alternately translated as: If a man owe a debt and Adad inundate his field and carry away the produce, or, though lack of water, grain have not grown in the field, in that year he shall not make any return of grain to the creditor, he shall alter his contract-tablet and he shall not pay the interest for that year.
Statement to Polaroid Corporation employes (25 June 1958), as quoted in Insisting on the Impossible : The Life of Edwin Land (1998) by Victor K. McElheny, p. 189
