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• Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Summer, Home, Holiday

  "Mind the beer, dear" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2006.

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• One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Escaping, Poverty, Obstacles

  "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

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• You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Humorous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

  Kin Hubbard

  Birthday, Fun, Insurance Agent

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• 'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.

  Stephen Hunter

  Horror, Progression, Break

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• It costs you something to do good!

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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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

  Religious, Heaven, Raw Materials

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.10

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• Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

  Ernest Istook

  Years, Dollars, Benefits

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• I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Usa, America, Bathroom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Goal, Reform, Majors

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• How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Fear, Self Esteem

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• My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Time, Money

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

  Steve Jobs

  Blow, Technology, America

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• I'm not married, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie sale section. I'm kind of a mess.

  Mindy Kaling

  Dollars, Three, Cards

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling on Why You Need a Man, Not a Boy" by Mindy Kaling, www.glamour.com. October 3, 2011.

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• Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

  Ric Keller

  Years, Immigration, Care

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• It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Believe, Fighting, Careers

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• There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Leadership, Freedom

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• You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

  Kesha

  Car, Bags, Looks

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

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• It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

  Stephen King

  Evil, Achieve, Goodness

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• Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

  Jack Kingston

  World, Rehabilitation, Economy

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• If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

  Ed Koch

  President, Politics, Bucks

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• As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.

  Jonathan Kozol

  New York, School, Cities

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• I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "Interview with Representative Dennis Kucinich". Interview With John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 30, 2011.

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• Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Children, Boss, Birth Control

  "Is There Really A War on Women or Are Men Just Being Stupid?" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.

  Amy Lee

  School, Looks, Littles

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