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Paul McCartney Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back."

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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
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"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift."

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Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer
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"I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words."

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Saul Bellow Novelist
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"I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty."

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Shelley Berman Comedian, Actor
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"I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him."

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George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter
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"I was a novelist first. But in the mid 80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, you know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising."

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Henry Adams Historian
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"No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money."

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