"Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing."
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"It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged."
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"If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free."
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"The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth."
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"Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply."
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"Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are."
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"Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying."
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"To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain."
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"Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs"
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"Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?"
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"Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing."
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"We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of return, so he's not willing to put it out at less than 10% now. But if we knew interest rates would stay at 1%, we'd change. Our hurdles reflect our estimate of future opportunity costs."
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"A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection."
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"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."
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"In real estate, many investors love triple net leases. With NNN's investors receive income without the expenses of taxes, repairs and insurance. The tenant covers these costs."
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"There are two kinds of marketing: expensive and inexpensive. Expensive marketing is the kind that doesn't work. Inexpensive marketing is the kind that works—regardless of cost."
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"No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be."
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"The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it."
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"Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor."
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"Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anticompetitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to the consumer. And that cost is astronomical."
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