Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Context: You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
2010s, 2016, June
Source: In an interview with CBS This Morning Norah O'Donnell http://www.dailywire.com/news/6824/trump-yeah-so-ill-declare-america-bankrupt-james-barrett (June 22, 2016)
“If you owe a man a dollar, pay it; if you owe him a grudge, forget it, and always be kind.”
[Powderly, Terence, 'The Path I Trod: The Autobiography of Terence V. Powderly, 1940, Columbia University Press, 9781163178164, https://archive.org/stream/pathitrodautobio00powdrich, 34]
“The Challenge of Facts”, 1914 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914sumner.html.
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.
“Love is for children. I owe him a debt.”
“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
“Worrying is like praying for something you don't want.”
Source: Biography
“991. Speake not of my debts, unlesse you mean to pay them.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Note in the first chapter of an 1814 version of The Story of the Stone, as quoted by Liu Zaifu in Reflections on "Dream of the Red Chamber", trans. Shu Yunzhong (Cambria Press, 2008), p. 197
