"There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may."
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"Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities."
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"We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions."
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"Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs."
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"we are slaves to the cost of living."
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"Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with respect...Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic."
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"Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold."
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"The cost of leadership is self-interest."
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"If your job is inspiration you have to go at it at all costs."
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"Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life."
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"I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life."
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"The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost."
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"They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little."
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"No one thinks of how much blood it costs."
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"All the equity investors, in total, will surely bear a performance disadvantage per annum equal to the total croupiers' costs they have jointly elected to bear. This is an inescapable fact of life. And it is also inescapable that exactly half of the investors will get a result below the median result after the croupiers' take, which median result may well be somewhere between unexciting and lousy."
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"Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap."
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"The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower."
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"Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost."
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"The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning."
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"Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced."
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