"Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money."
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"Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost."
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"It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost."
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"I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved."
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"Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude."
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"I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn't cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That's how you get respect in Hollywood."
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"Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated."
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"Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs"
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"The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result was an investigation and a congressional hearing. Not to defend failure, but $250 million is not much more than the cost to produce Kevin Costner's film flop Waterworld."
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"Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing."
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"One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions."
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"In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon."
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"The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has. They can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time."
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"Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost."
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"If we don't reform how healthcare is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able to get a handle on that escalating healthcare costs."
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"Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense."
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"I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear."
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"grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom."
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"You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower."
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"Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it."
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