| "The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House." »William Jefferson Clinton |
| "The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place." »Claude T Bissell |
| "There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting." »Rudolf Karl Bultmann |
| "What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living." »Doug Larson |
| "To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting." »David Letterman |
| "Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets." »Simone Weil |
| "How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Old houses mended, cost little less than new before they re ended." »Colley Cibber |
| "In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes." »James A. Froude |
| "Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play." »Jerry Coleman |
| "Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive." »William Frank Buckley, Jr. |
| "The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost." »William Carlos Williams |
| "Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does." »James Hilton |
| "The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated." »Baltasar Gracian |
| "There is one rule for the industrialist and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." »Henry Ford |
| "The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." »Gore Vidal |
| "Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty." »Warren Buffett |
| "After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement." »Norman Thomas |
| "Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday." »Samuel Johnson |
| "When in the pursuit of happiness Obstacles cross our way, When all seems lost And there is a darkening of the day. Remember God in His heaven And it does not cost to call. We'll find despite our troubles We've been blessed after all." »Janet Louise Holman |
| "If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." »Robert X Cringely |
| "No vision and you perish No Ideal, and you're lost Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high." »Harriet Du Autermont |
| "The coming together of two laudable movements -- death with dignity and cost containment -- concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die" »Mark Siegler |
| "If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered." »A. Edward Newton |
| "Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms." »Robert Green Ingersoll |
| "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost." »Thomas J. Watson |
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