"Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain."
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"We are monkeys. We like to chatter. Chattering doesn't cost us anything."
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"I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost."
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"Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood."
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"A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost."
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"Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business."
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"I am a firm believer in the mission of the health centers, which offer cost-effective comprehensive primary and preventive services to at-risk people."
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"Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups."
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"It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance."
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"TMM is among the best of low-cost gold producers with strong longevity."
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"Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers."
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"Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride"
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"What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve."
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"Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first."
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"Leadership is a choice to protect the person to the left of us, and protect the person to the right of us, and sometimes that may come at a cost. It may cost us our benefits, it may cost us our comfort, it may sometimes cost us our perks, whatever it is, credit."
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"In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity."
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"Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost."
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"I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit."
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"Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend."
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"'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie."
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