Free Lunch Quotes

• What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

  W. Clement Stone

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• In the financial world it tends to be misleading to state, "There is no free lunch." Rather the more meaningful comment is, "Somebody has to pay for lunch."

  Martin J. Whitman

  Meaningful, Lunch, Investing

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• Free lunches don't come cheap.

  Charles Petzold

  Lunch

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• There's no such thing as a free lunch, unless you have a coupon for a free lunch...or someone gives you a lunch...never mind.

  John Adams

  Lunch, Giving, Mind

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• It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

  Stephen Hawking

  Lunch, Said, Ultimate

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

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• There's no such thing as a free lunch.

  Milton Friedman

  Lunch Break, Economics, Ecological Crisis

  1973 Lecture. The phrase is thought to have been coined anonymously, perhaps referring to the 19c US tradition of supplying food in bars to patrons buying drinks.

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• The free lunch has still to be invented.

  Alan Greenspan

  Lunch, Stills

  2004 On the US budget deficit, 6 May.

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• Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Free Education, Lunch

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• When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line - that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can however, determine who pays for lunch.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Party, Cutting

  "Dividend Voodoo". Article by Warren Buffett, www.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2003.

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• There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Philosophy, Lunch, Political

  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ch. 11 (1966).

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• The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Essence, Lunch, Modern

  "Obamacare Laid Bare". www.jewishworldreview.com. November 01, 2013.

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• Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

  Barry Commoner

  Nature, Lunch, Environment

  "Barry Commoner, scientist and influential environmentalist, dies at 95" by Matt Schudel, www.washingtonpost.com. October 2, 2012.

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• Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Lunch, Use, Action

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• There are no free lunches on welfare.

  Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

  Wisdom, Lunch, Politics

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• The question of the origin of the matter in the universe is no longer thought to be beyond the range of science - everything can be created from nothing. It is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

  Alan Guth

  Lunch, Matter, Range

  "The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins". Book by Alan Guth, 1997.

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• There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moon, Lunch, Mistress

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• If you have never tried a plant-based diet, start. If you've never juiced vegetables, start. If you've never taken vitamin C to saturation, start. If you have never done a half-hour fitness workout each day, start. But, there is no such thing as a free lunch, a quick fix or a magic wand to cure illness.

  Andrew Saul

  Workout, Taken, Lunch

  Source: www.drpasswater.com

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• If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help us make better decisions and improve our overall well-being? That's exactly the meaning of free lunches- the idea that there are tools, methods, and policies that can help all of us make better decisions and as a consequence achieve what we desire-pg. 241

  Dan Ariely

  Mistake, Ideas, Lunch

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• Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.

  Paul Ormerod

  Skills, Lunch, Luck

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Nature, Lunch, Pollution Control

  Business Week, June 18, 1990.

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• Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Reality, Thinking, Lunch

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• You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.

  Arthur Baer

  Country, Men, Lunch

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• It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!

  Dan Ariely

  Depressing, Confused, Smart

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• There's no free lunch. If you want an industrial economy, you need energy. If you want energy, it will produce pollution. You can have it in two forms. You can have it dissipated in the atmosphere - like carbon dioxide - which then you cannot recover, or you can have the waste concentrated in one small space like nuclear. That is far easier to deal with. The idea that you can be able to create renewable energy at a price anywhere near the current price for oil or gas or coal is a fantasy.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Ideas, Two, Lunch

  "'Obama Is Average'". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• Nature is not a free lunch, but we treat it as a free lunch.

  Robert Bateman

  Nature, Lunch, Treats

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