Discounts Quotes - Page 6

• The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.

  Susan Branch

  Dream, Magic, Important

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• This doesn't mean you're getting a discount." Audrey heaved a mock sigh. "Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then." Gnome choked on the soup. "I'm old enough to be your grandfather!" Audrey winked at him, gathering the empty bags. "But you're not.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mean, Grandfather, Gathering

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.19, Penguin

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• I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

  Park Chan-wook

  Limits, Scripts, Fit

  "Director Park Chan-Wook Says Another English-Language Picture In The Works, ‘Snowpiercer’ Almost Finished & Talks His Dream Genres" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. February 28, 2013.

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• You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

  Laurie R. King

  Female, Fool, Helping

  Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.112, Macmillan

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• Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.

  Diane Duane

  Voice, Sometimes, Speak

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• I don't see why its taking so long," Maryse was saying to Magnus "is that normal?" "What's not normal is the discount I'm giving you."Magnus tapped the heel of his boot against the wall. "Normally I charge twice this much

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Long, Giving

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• These mages," Kol asked, a wicked glint in his eye, "what kind of fees will they charge? Will I get a two-for-one discount, since they're twins?

  Tamora Pierce

  Eye, Two, Wicked

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• What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, What If, Perfect Match

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence…the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason

  Steven Pinker

  Uplifting, People, Soul

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.170, Penguin

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• The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Reality, Expectations, Mind

  Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Warrior Heir”, p.152, Hachette UK

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• The generally accepted theory is that financial markets tend towards equilibrium, and...discount the future correctly. I operate using a different theory, according to which financial markets cannot possibly discount the future correctly because the do not merely discount the future; they help to shape it.

  George Soros

  Shapes, Different, Helping

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• There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.

  Brad Carson

  Real, Philosophical, Issues

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• The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments accurately even when it is unclear what those developments are. I start with the opposite view. I believe the market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

  George Soros

  Believe, Views, Opposites

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . . a work shouldn't be dismissed simply because of the strong convictions of the writer. Should we discount the facticity or reliability of the accounts of Nazi concentration camp survivors simply because they passionately recount their story?

  Paul Copan

  Strong, Writing, Goal

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• In most cases, preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize the entire contract and cost the company millions in lost discounts based on nonperformance. This is precisely why compliance with preferred vendors and contracted rates is critical.

  Jeff Pulver

  Commitment, Cost, Lost

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• By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Long, People

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• Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain the instinct for survival, not to speak of minimal concern for their fellow man, will seek ways to act before rather than after the event.

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Survival, Church

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• My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the stars are all as small as three-penny bits. I don't really believe in astronomy, except as a complicated description of part of the course of human and possibly animal sensation. I apply my perspective not merely to space but also to time. In time the world will cool and everything will die; but that is a long time off still and its present value at compound discount is almost nothing.

  Frank P. Ramsey

  Stars, Believe, Science

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• My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't mind being a 65-year-old spinster. But I don't discount love when I'm talking about not getting married. I could... it's just something I haven't wanted to do yet.

  Kylie Minogue

  Talking, Years, Careers

  "Talking dirty: quotes of the week". www.irishexaminer.com. February 20, 2002.

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• Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

  Ronald Reagan

  Baseball, Political, Pastime

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• The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding physical pain as an example, for it is an interest that humans clearly share with other animals - those interests are to be counted equally, with no automatic discount just because one of the beings is not human.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Animal, Example

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• It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Self, People

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.271, Courier Corporation

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• I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Years, Long

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