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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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"Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns." »John Maurice Clark
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"One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy." »Jane Austen
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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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"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production." »Ayn Rand
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"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing." »Thomas Alva Edison
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"It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant." »Margaret Fuller
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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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"How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened." »Thomas Jefferson
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom." »Forest McDonald
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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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"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
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"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
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