"There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod."
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"The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word."
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"I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances."
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"The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy."
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"My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions."
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"The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience."
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"The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics."
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"Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own."
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"Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost."
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"There is a high cost for low living."
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"It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable"
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"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."
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"You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition."
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"Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love."
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"I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost."
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"To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found."
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"I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free."
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"The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer."
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"Love is worth whatever it costs."
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"Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected."
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