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• Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wish, Sometimes, Regimes

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• I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.

  George Clooney

  Mean, Winning, Justified

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• At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.

  Gail Collins

  Country, Care, Administration

  "Politicians, Love ’Em or Hate ’Em". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 21, 2011.

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• No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Loan, Interest, Rate

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• My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Real, Light, Names

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• The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Long, Quality, Results

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• If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

  Morarji Desai

  Pain, Men, Eugenics

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

  Jared Diamond

  Iraq, Issues, Months

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• The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Communication, Technology

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.275, Routledge

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• Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, Resistance, Management

  "Romulus the Great" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, act III, 1956.

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• My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.

  Steve Earle

  Believe, School, Eye

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• Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Fossils, Fuel

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere.

  Sylvia Earle

  Integrity, Mean, People

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• This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

  Clint Eastwood

  Funny, Movie, Sarcastic

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• The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

  Meister Eckhart

  Life, Moving On, Business

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• There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Blood

  DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Crusade in Europe”

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• Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

  Larry Elder

  War, Home, Fire

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• Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

  Larry Elder

  Jobs, Unemployment, Benefits

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• Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Lying, Trying, Physicians

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• A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.

  Tim Ferriss

  Jobs, Mean, Entrepreneur

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• The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Cost Of Living, Alcohol

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Business, Quality Goods, Wages

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• Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

  Henry Ford

  Business, Cutting, Competition

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• If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

  Michel Foucault

  Birthday, Power, Age

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.5, Vintage

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• We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

  Sigmund Freud

  Believe, Civilization, Satisfaction

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1963). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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