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• The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

  Bono

  Oil, Coal, Environment

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• In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

  Edward de Bono

  Strive, Be Prepared, Deals

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Giving, Community, Troops

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• Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

  Alton Brown

  People, Guy, Nye

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• For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.

  James Buchan

  Years, Tasks, Three

  "A complete waste of energy". www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2002.

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• Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.

  James Buchan

  Distance, Grief, Eye

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• Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Reality, Idealism And Realism, Fine

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• People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn't know was that the hostess made sure every morsel placed in front of them was pure and without anything artificial, no matter what the cost.

  Sandra Bullock

  Mother, Fun, Party

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• Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Hypocrisy, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

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• It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

  Carol Burnett

  Teamwork, Winning, Magazines

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• I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

  Barbara Bush

  Government, Controversial, Projects

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• You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

  David Cameron

  Trying, Economist, Things To Do

  "The Economist" Interview, www.economist.com. March 31, 2010.

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• I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

  James Cameron

  Rivers, Cost Of Living, Magic Moments

  James Cameron (1968). “What a way to run the tribe: selected articles, 1948-67”

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• I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

  James Cameron

  Mean, Successful, Agreement

  "Man of Extremes The Return of James Cameron" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

  Anne Campbell

  Students, Loan, Higher Education

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• A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Truth, Passion

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• In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn’t very good at it.

  Adam Carolla

  Nice, Dirty, Naughty

  Interview with Ariel Adams, www.askmen.com. November 3, 2010.

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• The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

  Benjamin Carson

  Cutting, Keys, Doctors

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• For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.270, Wordsworth Editions

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• That which costs little is less valued.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Littles, Values

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1749). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra. By Charles Jarvis Esq; ...”, p.331

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• Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

  Jackie Chan

  Technology, Culture, Cinema

  Twitter post from Jun 23, 2014

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• Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

  Chris Christie

  Hurt, Selfish, Sacrifice

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• We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Strength, Beach

  Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796

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• Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Fear, War, Greatest Victory

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

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• When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

  Winston Churchill

  Sad, Witty, Powerful

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

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