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• It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Simple, Engineering, Doubt

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.514, Simon and Schuster

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• If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars aren't good for learning lead, because you can't play up very high on the neck and they take heavier-gauge strings which makes it hard to bend notes

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Guitar, Play

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• I tip like crazy. Theyll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.

  Phil Donahue

  Crazy, Remember, Remember Me

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• Health care is too expensive, so the Clinton administration is putting a high-powered coporate lawyer - Hillary - in charge of making it cheaper. (This is what I always do when I want to spend less money - hire a lawyer from Yale.) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Yale, Waiting

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A woman should dress to attract attention. To attract the most attention, a woman should be either nude, or wearing something as expensive as getting her nude is going to be.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dresses, Attention, Should

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.251, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Men, Japan, France

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

  Irving Kaufman

  Finding The One, History, Machines

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• Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.

  Adrian Slywotzky

  Risk, Information, Management

  "The Upside". "HBR IdeaCast" with Paul Michelman, hbr.org.

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• Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

  Benjamin Rush

  House, Bipolar, Extravagance

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• Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

  Cleveland Amory

  Funny, Husband, Support

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• Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.

  Julia Child

  Art, Differences, Cooking

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.30, Knopf

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• Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

  Aneurin Bevan

  People, Television, Prudent

  David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Government, Cities

  "Battlelines". Book by Tony Abbott, 2009.

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• Today, its expensive prescription medications burdening seniors on fixed incomes with thousands of dollars in yearly out-of-pocket costs.

  Jim Gerlach

  Senior, Pockets, Dollars

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• If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

  Brian Foote

  Thinking, Design, Trying

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• Know your core competencies and focus on being great at them. Pay up for people in your core competencies. Get the best. Outside the core competencies, hire people that fit your culture but are cheap.

  Mark Cuban

  People, Focus, Culture

  "How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It". Book by Mark Cuban, November 20, 2011.

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• There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume. The one was trying to acquire the courage of the king of beasts, the other is attempting to acquire the irresistible sexuality of flowers. The underlying principle is the same.

  Tom Robbins

  Kings, Flower, Warrior

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• Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

  Vernor Vinge

  Pain, Deception, Levers

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.145, Macmillan

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• As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.

  Tad Williams

  Speak No Evil, Would Be, Want

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• Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Business, Sleep, Worry

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• We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food

  Kathleen Sebelius

  World, Care, Next

  "Commentary: Health care can't wait" By Kathleen Sebelius, www.cnn.com. July 15, 2009.

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• Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Work Out, Paper, Computer

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• If they found a way to make shooting in 240p expensive, it would be trendy.

  Mike D

  Would Be, Shooting, Way

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• Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.

  Scott Simon

  Dream, Adoption, Process

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.49, Random House

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• Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white collar crime for too long. It is time the nation woke up and realized that it's not the armed robbers or drug dealers who cause the most economic harm, it's the white collar criminals living in the most expensive homes who have the most impressive resumes who harm us the most. They steal our pensions, bankrupt our companies, and destroy thousands of jobs, ruining countless lives.

  Harry Markopolos

  Jobs, Home, Government

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