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"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
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"Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television." »Aldo Leopold
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"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." »Bruce Marton
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"Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet." »Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
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"What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living." »Doug Larson
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"Freedom of speech gives us all the opportunity to express our thoughts and react to them; but does this freedom give big brother, the opportunity to dictate our way of life???" »Larry Levesque
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"I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies." »Christa McAuliffe
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"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity." »Richard M. Nixon
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"opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers." »American Proverb
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"How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Old houses mended, cost little less than new before they re ended." »Colley Cibber
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"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play." »Jerry Coleman
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"Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes." »James A. Froude
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"The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost." »William Carlos Williams
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." »Winston Churchill
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"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive." »William Frank Buckley, Jr.
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"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
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"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
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"Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." »Gore Vidal
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"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
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"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
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"Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600,000. No, I replied, I just spent 600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience" »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"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
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"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
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