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• Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense, forgetful of her, and of his brother, and of God; while she dragged through the years, sullen and bitter, the stain of silence marking her, coming in the end to ridicule as a soured spinster who had been kissed once in her life and could not forget it.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Song, Brother, Years

  Daphne du Maurier (1936). “JAMAICA INN”

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• The rich does not work for money, but money work for them...., While the poor work for money.Illiteracy, both in word and numbers, is the foundation of financial struggle....,Wealth is a person's ability to survive so many number of days forward... or if i stopped working today, how could i survive?...,Wealth is the measure of cash flow from to asset column compared with the expense column.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Struggle, Cash Flow, Numbers

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• ʺWhere is it?ʺ I asked. ʺLexington, Kentucky.ʺ ʺOh for Godʹs sake,ʺ I moaned. ʺWhy not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?ʺ Dimitri tried to hide a smile. It might have been at my expense, but if Iʹd lightened his mood, I was grateful. ʺIf we leave right now, we can reach him before morning.ʺ I glanced around. ʺTough choice. Leave all this for electricity and plumbing?ʺ Now Sydney grinned. ʺAnd no more marriage proposals.ʺ ʺAnd weʹll probably have to fight Strigoi,ʺ added Dimitri. I jumped to my feet. ʺHow soon can we go?ʺ

  Richelle Mead

  Morning, Grateful, Fighting

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• Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

  Oliver Herford

  Marriage, Divorce, Way

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• Why don’t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.” “I have one,” she said, “but I don’t think it’s very good. Half the words are missing.” “Half?” “Well, some,” she amended. “But truly, that’s not the problem.” He blinked, waiting for her to continue. She did. Of course. “I don’t think Italian is the author’s native tongue,” she said. “The author of the dictionary?” he queried. “Yes. It’s not terribly idiomatic.

  Julia Quinn

  Thinking, Italian, Waiting

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• No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.

  Charles Babbage

  Degrees, Lasts, Measurement

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.119, Cambridge University Press

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• You were right. My whole crew. Gone. Arrested. Perfect. Shoot me now and save me the expense of a bullet later. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Perfect, Gone, Bullets

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.528, Macmillan

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• Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Feelings, Wish

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• I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think that in the Western world the contrary is true. By uniting the materialism of the West with the spiritualism of the East I believe much can be accomplished. It may be that in the attempt the Hindu faith will lose much of its individuality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Believe, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3224, Manonmani Publishers

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• If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions, of the stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Jobs, Community, Greed

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.9, Penguin

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• A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Useless, Honest

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.297, Algora Publishing

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• Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

  Eric S. Raymond

  Memories, Men, Errors

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.23, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world are the most selfish beings of all, that by cultivating altruism they actually achieve ultimate happiness for themselves?' Yes. That's wise selfish,' he replied. 'Helping others not means we do this at our own expense. Not like this. Buddhas and bodhisattvas, these people very wise. All their lives they only want one thing: to achieve ultimate happiness. How to do this? By cultivating compassion, by cultivating altruism.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Selfish, Teaching

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• May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.

  Christopher Moore

  Sheep, Pet, Irs

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.53, Zondervan

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• But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Loss, Medical, Fit

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.40, Oxford University Press

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• I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Book, Safe Return

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1601, Library of America

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• It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Authority, Increase

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Design, Benefits

  Thomas Paine (2016). “Common Sense”, p.4, Coventry House Publishing

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• Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

  B. F. Skinner

  Loss, Men, Views

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.156, Hackett Publishing

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• Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mean, Loss, Rome

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• For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Years, Democracy

  "For Albright and Rice, Josef Korbel Is Tie that Binds". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, Michele Norris, Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 28, 2006.

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• I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Strong, Say Anything, Want

  "Here They Are Jayne Mansfield". Book by Raymond Strait, 1992.

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• Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Talent, Sensuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

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• The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people's expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn't care if you are a white person who likes Black people; it's still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don't look like you.

  Scott Woods

  Hate, White, People

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• Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Revenge, Sensual

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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