The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.
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The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
Some people feel that the world owes them a living.
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes.
When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.
All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.
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