"The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs."
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"The progress in Iraq has not been without cost."
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"Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything."
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"Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher."
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"If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company."
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"Free competition is worth more to society than it costs."
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"It costs you something to do good!"
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"The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes"
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"The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich."
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"The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system."
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"Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read."
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"It costs a lot to build bad products"
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"I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results."
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"Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone."
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"The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good."
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"We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take time, and we're working on it methodically."
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"I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost."
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"Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most."
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"That which costs little is less valued."
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"You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage."
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