"Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses."
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"If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be created from nothing?"
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"Mistakes only cost you when you don't acknowledge them."
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"A smile costs about $240."
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"There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small."
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"Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of super highway."
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"There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel."
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"Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost."
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"A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything."
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"True feeling justifies whatever it may cost."
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"You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much."
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"The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?"
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"So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America."
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"The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen." "Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world."
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"Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say."
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"You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place."
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"To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives."
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"Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance."
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"The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation."
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"Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty."
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