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• I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.

  Little Richard

  Felt

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• At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

  Eric Ries

  Twenties, Dollars, Acquisition

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• I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

  Tim Robbins

  True Love, People, Individual

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• I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.

  Julia Roberts

  Thinking, Moments, Fame

  "Canoodling With Julia". www.vanityfair.com. February 28, 1999.

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• Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Gun

  "Accidental Gun Control: Bullets Get Expensive". www.npr.org. May 21, 2008.

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• We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Stress, Greed

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• It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

  Will Rogers

  Wisdom, Business, Men

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.

  Christina Romer

  Jobs, War, Skills

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• And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

  Mitt Romney

  Hurt, Jobs, Mean

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, Office, Reign

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• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  Karl Rove

  Country, Team, Growth

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• The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

  Kevin Rudd

  Government, Games, Decision

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

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• Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Photography, World, Awful

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Leadership, Presidential, Looks

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

  Salman Rushdie

  Long, Special, England

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• I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

  Richard Russo

  Thinking, People, Satisfaction

  "Richard Russo on Painting a Canvas With His Novels". HBO Interview, www.hbo.com.

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• False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Selfish, Mean, Land

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• We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

  Paul Ryan

  Quality, Care, Erode

  Paul Ryan’s CPAC Speech, www.nationalreview.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.

  Bernie Sanders

  Doctors, Order, Community

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

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• The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Healthcare Reform, Goal

  "Single payer health: it's only fair" by Bernie Sanders, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2011.

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• If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

  Bernie Sanders

  Goal, Reform, Care

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

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• True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

  May Sarton

  Feelings, May, Justify

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

  Eric Schlosser

  Real, Taste, Fast Food Nation

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• I think that if there's some innovative entrepreneurs out there who can help teach people how they can cost-effectively help themselves and their planet, I think everybody would be for it. That's going to be the challenge - figuring a way to get the marketplace and commerce to teach us consumers another way.

  Ricky Schroder

  Thinking, People, Entrepreneur

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• Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

  Howard Schultz

  Cutting, Way, Sides

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