"The tongue talkes at the heads cost."
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"Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke."
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"Anothers bread costs deare."
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"It costs more to doe ill then to doe well. [It costs more to do ill than to do well.]"
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"We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom."
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"I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down."
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"The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time."
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"...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains."
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"As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized."
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"Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does."
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"The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes."
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"I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails."
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"We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is the left extreme."
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"The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it."
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"The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost."
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"Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power."
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"Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets."
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"I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story."
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"The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic."
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"At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold."
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