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• You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a cabin where the fire is out and there are no blankets on the floor." He signaled to a slave to fill his glass, which he held aloft. "But I have lived. And I have been warm with life as you have never been warm. It is true, you shall live long. But the longest nights are the cold nights when a man shivers and lies awake. My nights have been short, but I have slept warm

  Jack London

  Lying, Night, Men

  Jack London, black Horse Classics (2017). “Jack London: The Complete Novels [Classics Authors Vol: 6] (Black Horse Classics)”, p.2931, Jack

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• We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mistake, People, Human Life

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, Insperational, Generosity

  "All Men Are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1946.

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• War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else. War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life.

  Steven Erikson

  War, Yield, Hands

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• You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that’s right. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars… five thousand dollars per bullet… You know why? Cause if a bullet cost five thousand dollars there would be no more innocent bystanders.

  Chris Rock

  Gun, Men, Thinking

  "Accidental Gun Control: Bullets Get Expensive". Interview with Rachel Martin and Mike Pesca, www.npr.org. May 21, 2008.

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• Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

  George Carlin

  Team, Circles, Names

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.

  C. S. Lewis

  Journey, Long, Wish

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• There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.

  J. C. Ryle

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Common

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• Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Nature, Cost Benefit Analysis

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth”, p.180, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cheating, Hands, Infidelity

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• The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.

  Stephen King

  Long, Towers, Stones

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Dec 04, 2013

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• Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.

  Glenn Beck

  Matter, Faces, Duty

  Glenn Beck (2009). “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Philosophy, Medicine, Fool

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.1987, Delphi Classics

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• And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.

  Stephen King

  People, Understanding, Important

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

  Walter Cronkite

  Inspirational, Education, Ignorant

  "The price of libraries is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation" by Abigail Tarttelin, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2013.

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• I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high... and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes.)

  Stephen King

  Believe, Heart, People

  Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.

  Libba Bray

  Running, Pain, Hair

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope costs nothing.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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• Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Unique, People

  Yann Martel (2009). “What Is Stephen Harper Reading?: Yann Martel's Recommended Reading for a Prime Minister and Book Lovers of All Stripes”, p.152, Vintage Canada

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• We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, People

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• Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Success, Ambition

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.615, Wordsworth Editions

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• The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

  Paul Johnson

  Powerful, Earth Day, Arrogance

  Paul Johnson (1980). “The Things that are Not Caesar's”

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• Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now, I've done the sums ahead. I know what it will mean to redeem myself from the accumulations of a lifetime. I know and I don't care. You set before me a space uncluttered by association. It might be a void or it might be a release. Certainly I want to take the risk. I want to take the risk because the life I have stored up is going mouldy.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mean, Past, Space

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• What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  War, Gunpowder, Steel

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