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DEBT:

DEBT: Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence! -Gautama Buddha I don't want to die, but I wouldn't care if I were dead. -Cicero Pay what you owe, and you'll know what is your own. -Benjamin Franklin There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing or debt. -Henrik Ibsen We die only once, and for such a long time! -Moliere If a man ever pays you what he owes you, You're greatly beholden to him. -Terence:Phormia

DEATH:

DEATH: Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. -Henry Adams To die will be an awfully big adventure. -J.M.Barrie It costs a lot of money to die comfortably. -Samuel Butler Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me. -Emily Dickinson:Because I could not stop for death Death acquits us of all obligations. -Montaigne

DANGER:

DANGER: Danger bring fears, and fears more dangers bring. -Richard Baxter Danger for danger's sake is senseless. -Leigh Hunt The profession of soldiers and sailors has the dignity of danger. -Samuel Johnson:Boswell's Life of Johnson A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Jean Paul Richter Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck the flower, safety. -Shakespeare:Henry IV In this world, there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. -G.B.Shaw

CIVILIZATION:

CIVILIZATION: We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. -Omar Bradley Civilization does not lie in a greater or lesser degree of refinement, but in an awareness shared by a whole people. -Albert Camus We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock crowing and the morning star. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. -Elbert Hubbard Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool -Robert Hutchins As Civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. -Lord Macaulay Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour. -Arnold Toynbee Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the lifeblood of real civilization. -G.M.Trevelyan

CHOICE:

CHOICE: The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. -George Eliot Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty. -George MacDonald Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all. -Montaigne There's small choice in rotten apples. -Shakespeare:The Taming of the Shrew Where to elect there is but one,  'Tis Hobson;s choice - take that or none. -Thomas Ward:England's Reformation

CHILDHOOD:

CHILDHOOD: He who shall teach a child to doubt A rotting grave shall never get out. -William Blake:Auguries of Innocence Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Children when they are little make parent fools, when they are great they make them mad. -George Herbert The childhood shows the man  As morning shows the day. -John Milton:Paradise Regained Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. -John Ruskin Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. -Oscar Wilde