Jacob K. Javits

You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.

American Politician

Ernie Harwell

I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.

American Celebrity

Susan Collins

We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.

Laura Jane Grace

I'm just me and if me being honest about who I am and putting myself out there in that way makes connections with people and helps people out, that's just repaying the favor of music because that's what music does for me.

American Musician

George W. Bush

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

American President

Richard Thaler

High school seniors should receive help in how to think about a student loan and how to make sure that the education bought with the loan offers good prospects for repayment.

American Economist

Radamel Falcao

I think the best way I can repay the supporters for their kindness towards me, and for all that love, support and appreciation, is to score goals and win trophies for them.

Colombian Athlete

Arthur Ashe

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

American Tennis Player

Jeon Yeo-been

Vincenzo is a delightfully-refreshing dark hero who repays evil for evil.

South Korean Actress

Marshall McLuhan

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

Canadian Sociologist

Often used to describe gradually reducing debt over time.

Paying Off

'Repay' suggests a strong sense of duty or obligation in financial contexts.

Financial Obligation

Used when discussing money, specifically when returning an amount borrowed.

Monetary Context

Expressing gratitude or balance in non-financial help or support received.

Moral Gesture

Conveys a sense of personal obligation, beyond material aspects.

Emotional Debt

Highlights a social norm of reciprocating favors and kind gestures.

Social Exchange

Acknowledging someone's contributions or achievements in a tangible way.

Recognition Efforts

In business, 'repay' can mean rewarding efforts with promotions or other benefits.

Business Rewards

Use 'repay' to describe professional progression as a form of reimbursement.

Career Growth

 with someone always indebted to someone else. Repaying a gift immediately, or with something of exactly equal value, may be read as ending the social relationship. So, are gift economies exclusive to small-scale societies outside the industrialized world? Not quite. For one thing, even in these cultures,

What is a gift economy?...

 unprecedented fit of generosity, the government of the day signed, made a written commitment, to repay all of the creditors. And I can tell you without fear of contradiction that hasn't happened anywhere else on the planet. Let's understand, because we lack context.

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 like a funeral or a medical problem and then they charge outrageous interest rates so the money can never be repaid and the debt is passed on to the children the heat was intense that day it was a hundred and forty degrees and the added heat from the furnaces that

Jodi Cobb: Human Bondage...

 to deliver growing sales, growing market share and growing profits, and because banks create money as debt bearing interest, which must be repaid with more. We're politically addicted to growth because politicians want to raise tax revenue without raising taxes

A healthy economy should...

 that borrowers pay to their creditors until the loan is repaid. Low interest rates mean that companies can afford to borrow more money, which they can use to invest in more projects. High interest rates, meanwhile, increase costs for producers and consumers,

What causes an economic...

 But the self-loathing of that period left a void, and celebration needs to fill and overflow it, and even if I repay my private debt of melancholy, there's still an outer world of homophobia that it will take decades to address.

How the worst moments in...

 put on this big welcome for us dancers singers everybody from the business community and they arts and this to that and I thought how can I ever repay this hospitality and so I said Madam President when I speak I would like to

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 to trick potential pranksters into taking their antics elsewhere. However, this tanuki only smiled sweetly. Why had he chosen this unsuspecting form? The tanuki explained that he wanted to repay the salesman’s kindness.

The Japanese myth of the...

 doesn't repay the favor once underground the caterpillar leads a predatory life eating the ants own larvae until one day it's ready to change into a pupa and eventually emerges as one of Britain's rarest

Weirdest Animal...

 the caterpillar mimics the sound and smell of the ants own young and mistaken for a mislaid ant lava is taken back to the nest by the foraging ant workers but it doesn't repay the favor once

Repay

To give back money to someone who lent you.

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To do something helpful for someone who has helped you.

Often appears as...

To give something to someone in exchange for something they have done for you.

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