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• When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Games, Two

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Drinking, Going Out

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• The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Views, Class

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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• It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We'd be rich and they'd be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They're all full of it. Nothing balances out.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Boys, Cities, Soldier

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• Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.

  Pete Rose

  Fun, Games, Dollars

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• Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.

  Edward Abbey

  Teacher, Littles, Administrators

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.53, RosettaBooks

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• In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

  Terry Pratchett

  Artist, Want, Very True

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• Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

  David Trimble

  Night, Mountain, Attention

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• My wife is the sweetest, most tolerant, most beautiful woman in the world. This is a paid political announcement.

  Henny Youngman

  Beautiful, Wife, Political

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• Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Men, People

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.7, Humanix Books

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• Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.

  Dan Quayle

  Children, Father, Character

  Remarks to Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, Cal., 19 May 1992

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• Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

  David Mamet

  Worry, Debt, Interest

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• Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should not forget any of those who paid for our present freedom in one way or another.

  Vaclav Havel

  Thinking, Way, Forget

  New Year's Address to the Nation, Prague, January 01, 1990.

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• Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Issues, Never Settle

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.27, Penguin

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• Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Knows

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.107, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Blessing, Bills, Should

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor”, p.77, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Suicide, Loss, Law

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• Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due

  Ian Fleming

  Worry, Disaster, Dues

  Ian Fleming (1964). “On her Majesty's Secret Service”

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• It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better by far to get paid.

  Liz Phair

  Nice

  Song: Shitloads of Money, Album: whitechocolatespaceegg

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• I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Suffering And Death, Essentials, Facts

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• The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air. I saw that a million dollars went to Beck this past year, that was the annual expenditure. I put it down now as basically as paid advertising for FreedomWorks by Beck.

  Dick Armey

  Nice, Past, Air

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• The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Giving, Glory, Poor

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• There is an island fantasy A "Someday I'll," we'll never see When recession stops, inflation ceases Our mortgage is paid, our pay increases That Someday I'll where problems end Where every piece of mail is from a friend Where the children are sweet and already grown . . . . Most unhappy people . . . put happiness on "law away" And struggle through a blue today . . . . Life's most important revelation Is that the journey means more than the destination . . .

  Denis Waitley

  Sweet, Children, Struggle

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• Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Exercise, Excellence

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.56, Bantam

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• I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Money, Passion

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