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• The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?

  Johnny Weir

  Drama, Tired, Games

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• A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

  Jack Welch

  Two, Numbers, People

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. March 17, 2009.

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• One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

  Morris West

  Life, Wisdom, Pain

  Morris West (1977). “The devil's advocate ; The second victory ; Daughter of silence ; The salamander ; The shoes of the fisherman”

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• Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Confusion, Environmental, Facts

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• Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.

  Ellen G. White

  Coffee, Idols, Tea

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• We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.

  Ellen G. White

  Son, Suffering And Death, Dear

  Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III”, p.966, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.

  George Will

  Grateful, Class, Political

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• I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.

  Esther Williams

  Jobs, Order, Swim

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• America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

  E. O. Wilson

  America, World, Wonderful

  "Darwin's natural heir" by Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2001.

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• Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.

  Fred Wilson

  Drawing, Share, Structure

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• Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

  Ron Wyden

  America, Broken, Silence

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• Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.

  Ron Wyden

  Simple, Oil, Numbers

  "Is the Keystone XL Pipeline a Good Deal for Americans?" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.

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• The KXL pipeline would make it easy and cost effective for oil producers in Canada to transport oil to the Gulf of Mexico where it could be shipped to customers - not just in the United States - but around the world.

  Ron Wyden

  Oil, Mexico, World

  "Is the Keystone XL Pipeline a Good Deal for Americans?" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Divorce

  Amazon Women on the Moon, www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Bucks, Fireworks, Lasagna

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

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• Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.

  Martin Filler

  Design, Quality, Typical

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• The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.

  Martin Filler

  Machines, Benefits, Financial

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• Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Doe, Tasks, Computer

  "Are jobs obsolete?". www.cnn.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Honest to god, Clare, you act like the dress is more important than you being shot!” Of course it is! It’s a Versace, you idiot! Bring help! I’m going to save this dress at all costs.” - Sam to Clare

  Katie MacAlister

  Important, Dresses, Helping

  Katie Macalister (2006). “Even Vampires Get the Blues”, p.53, Penguin

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• Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Animal, Men

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• Friends don't count the cost of favors.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Favors

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• We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Pain, Memories

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• Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

  Terry Goodkind

  Bears, Preserves, Values

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• In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

  Kathleen Norris

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.

  Bob Dylan

  Ifs

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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