"If Bill Gates is worth $30 billion then a good haircut must cost $31 billion"
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"I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others."
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"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."
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"It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day."
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"Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not."
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"I was late once and it cost me $50,000. I figure it was cheaper to wear two watches."
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"We simply prefer to deny death or tragedy at all costs and, with it, a fundamental aspect of life. We do this instead of acknowledging that suffering represents one of the strongest incentives of life, which is the base of human solidarity and what brings intensity to happiness."
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"Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them."
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"Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!"
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"The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment."
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"Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear."
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"Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune."
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"The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years."
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"In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light."
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"Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it."
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"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."
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"Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement."
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"With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn't appear that we're going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it's going to continue to grow."
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"Hope costs nothing."
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"Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless."
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