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• Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices.

  James Surowiecki

  Powerful, Technology, Numbers

  "Blackberry Season". www.newyorker.com. February 13 & 20, 2012.

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• The Xbox 360 is the best game console ever designed. It's fast and powerful - games look as good on the 360 as on high-end PCs that cost six times as much. It's easy to navigate and has lots of useful secondary features - the ability to play digital video, stream MP3s, and so on.

  James Surowiecki

  Xbox, Powerful, Mp3

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• What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Wages, Rising

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• When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.

  James Surowiecki

  Risk, Done, Pumps

  "Pump Pressure". www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2005.

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• Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

  David Suzuki

  Energy, Climate, Benefits

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• Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?

  David Suzuki

  Powerful, Long, Healthy

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• I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible.'

  Adora Svitak

  Kids, Thinking, Too Much

  "12-year-old author: Don't say 'childish'" by John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

  Marlo Thomas

  Taken, Care, Pay

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• To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Curtains, Excluded

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.208, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Running, Time

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.28, Graphic Arts Books

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• A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

  John Tillotson

  Relationship, People, Silence

  John Tillotson (1794). “The Beauties of Dr. John Tillotson, Carefullet Selected from His Works [and] Containing His Admirable System of Early Education, Thoughts on Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, the Immortality of the Soul, Etc: To which are Prefixed Some of His Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion”, p.195

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• But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

  Lily Tomlin

  People, Reason, Lives Of Others

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• It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

  Ted Turner

  Moving, Energy, Dollars

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• Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.

  Ted Turner

  Crazy, Communication, News

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• Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

  John Updike

  Respect, Literature, Newness Of Life

  1975 A Month of Sundays, ch.18.

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• I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

  Fred Upton

  Roots, Long, Challenges

  "Upton readies for super committee" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. August 10, 2011.

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• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

  Gore Vidal

  Issues, Political, Historical

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 03, 2011

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• Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

  Judith Viorst

  Superstitions, Doe, Woods

  Judith Viorst (1987). “Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.”, Fireside

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• A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

  Greg Walden

  Jobs, Loss, Average

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• Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

  Vera Wang

  People, Design, Boots

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• Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

  Thomas J. Watson

  Business, Mistake, Fire

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• Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

  Max Weber

  Unity, Administration, Speed

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.214, Routledge

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• Millions of Americans today are taking dietary supplements, practicing yoga and integrating other natural therapies into their lives. These are all preventive measures that will keep them out of the doctor's office and drive down the costs of treating serious problems like heart disease and diabetes.

  Andrew Weil

  Yoga, Heart, Doctors

  "A Call to Action: Why Our Health Matters" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2009.

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• To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary "surfing" and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.

  Andrew Weil

  Impact, Worry, Surfing

  "Fortunately, 'Corn Sugar' Has Become a Sticky PR Mess" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2010.

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• When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

  Harvey Weinstein

  Artist, Excellence, Doe

  "Harvey Weinstein On Hollywood's Heated Oscar Race". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.wbaa.org. December 2, 2011.

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