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• Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

  Thomas Sowell

  Reality, Liberty, Littles

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• Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

  Meryl Streep

  Reality, Clothes, Waste

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• Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

  James Surowiecki

  Depressing, Book, Years

  "Class Action". www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2005.

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• I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

  Taylor Swift

  Clothes, Scary, Events

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• It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

  Paul Theroux

  Lonely, Principled

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• Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Blow, Mirrors, Views

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.88, Pan Macmillan

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• A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

  Linus Torvalds

  Giving, Thousand, Consumers

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• You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.

  Steven Tyler

  Ideas, Looks, No Idea

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• Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, Risk, Enterprise

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• Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Mean, Clothes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, Play, Guy

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• Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

  George C. Wallace

  Funny, Military, Air

  "Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics". Book by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106, 2006.

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• I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

  Andrew Weil

  Health, Simple, Years

  "U.S. manages disease, not health" by Andrew Weil, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2013.

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• I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.

  Orson Welles

  Eight, Two, Hustle

  Interview with Leslie Megahey for The Orson Welles Story (1982). "Orson Welles: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)" by Mark Estrin, University Press of Mississippi, p. 209, 2002.

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• In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Looks

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• How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

  Fred Wilson

  Equity, Raises

  "Startup Financing 101: Capital Equipment Loans" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2011.

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• A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

  Helen Fisher

  Car, Guy, Watches

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• Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Individual, Projects, Charismatic

  "How to spread the word about radical ideas" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.

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• The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Ipods, Design, Doe

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• While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Fun, Simple, College

  "Learn to code, get a job" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2012.

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• I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.82, Zed Books

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• The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

  Frank Zappa

  Wall, Moving, Tables And Chairs

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• Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

  Aryn Kyle

  Tickets

  Aryn Kyle (2008). “The God of Animals: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.

  Edith Wharton

  Mistress

  "Old New York".

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