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• The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

  George Orwell

  Book

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.

  Robert Breault

  Responsibility, Pay, Hell

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• This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Grey Matter, Done

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• Say that Congress legislates gasoline price controls that sets a maximum price of $1 a gallon. As sure as night follows day, there'd be long lines and gasoline shortages, just as there were in the 1970s. For the average consumer, a $1.60 a gallon selling price and no waiting lines is a darn sight cheaper than a controlled $1 a gallon price plus searching for a gasoline station that has gas and then waiting in line. If your average purchase is 10 gallons, and if an hour or so of your time is worth more that $6, the $1.60 a gallon free market price is cheaper.

  Walter E. Williams

  Night, Sight, Average

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• Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.

  James Norwood Pratt

  Spiritual, Heart, Luxury

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• Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistress, Study, Painting

  James Smith, Vincent van Gogh (2001). “Essential Van Gogh”, Parragon Incorporated

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• Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

  Noam Chomsky

  New York, Order, Miracle

  Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.128, Pluto Press

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• Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Science, Two, Differences

  Stephen Leacock (1910). “Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches”

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• I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

  Brent Musburger

  Golf, Play, Telephones

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• We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

  Rita Rudner

  Dog, Feet, Long

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• We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

  Paul Hawken

  Business, Real, Bail

  "You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring". Paul Hawken's commencement speech at the University of Portland in Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Clouds, Eight

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until eventually they end up in prison.

  Stephen Colbert

  Book, World, Pages

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• If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

  Will Rogers

  Mass, Courses, Fellows

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

  Brent Smith

  Song, Writing, Musician

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• I was late once and it cost me $50,000. I figure it was cheaper to wear two watches.

  Chris Gardner

  Two, Watches, Cost

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• In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.

  Janet Yellen

  Running, Giving, Long

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• Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart - almost as good and a lot cheaper!

  Bill Watterson

  Baby, Dad, Light

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• I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Shopping, Psychiatrist, Tammy

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• So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.

  Nora Ephron

  Uplifting, Hair, Dry

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• Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.

  Gary Hamel

  Change, Horse, Together

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• There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.

  Trip Hawkins

  Powerful, Principles, Electronics

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• See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

  David Lynch

  Photography, Ideas, Together

  "The interview: David Lynch" by Gaby Wood and Hazel Sheffield, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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• To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Equality Under The Law, Offering, Giving

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  There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Men, People

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