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"To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money."
"Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost."
"A devious spark lit through Al, making me smile. One way. It costs too much, he said. “There’s no inflation in the ever-after, Al.” Call it a recession then. One way."
"Some things are worth the cost of their consequences."
"…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. " "What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?"
"It don't cost money to ask."
"When you use the term 'cost per lead' you make marketing a cost center. Instead say 'investment per lead.'"
"I have been called romantic. Well, that can't be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a realist also. And as that charge too can be made out, let us try to live up to it, at whatever cost, for a change."
"Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it."
"What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling."
"We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation."
"Excellence costs a great deal."
"It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong."
"Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility."
"What takes more guts? To fight for your own life at any cost—or prove that you're willing to lose it?"
"Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation."
"We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing."
"Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost."
