"Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs."
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"(A smile) costs nothing, but creates much."
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"And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?"
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"But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that."
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"It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States."
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"If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions."
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"All I want to do, if you've already got health care, is lower your costs."
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"Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences."
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"Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since ObamaCare was passed than they did before, which has saved the federal Treasury hundreds of billions of dollars."
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"The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed."
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"We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans."
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"Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost."
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"Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on."
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"Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens."
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"When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life."
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"All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost."
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"If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things."
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"Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs."
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"Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways."
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"As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs."
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