"There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses."
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"To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be avoided at all costs. Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it."
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"You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs."
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"Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same."
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"Leaders who lack passion cost everyone who follows."
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"Somebody once observed--and the observation did him credit, whoever he was--that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping."
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"Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich."
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"Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs."
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"Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education."
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"For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites."
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"All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost."
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"The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women."
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"My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost."
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"Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America."
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"The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has."
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"The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow."
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"We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and cost advantage."
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"People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything alive holds to it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition."
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"Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap."
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"If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much."
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