"If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price."
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"Achievers have a can-do attitude that sets them apart from mere dreamers. Achievers are sold out to success-no matter the obstacles-and they are willing to put forth the effort and pay the price of success."
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"We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price."
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"[W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out."
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"We long for unity, but are unwilling to pay the price. But of course, true unity cannot be so easily won. It starts with a change in attitudes - a broadening of our minds, and a broadening of our hearts."
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"Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke."
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"If you are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom."
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"But I've been traveling on a boat and a plane, in a car on a bike with a bus and a train. Traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear. But oh Lord we pay the price, with the spin of the wheel with the roll of the dice. Ah yeah you pay your fare. And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."
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"I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do."
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"One cannot pay the price of self-respect."
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"Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price."
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"Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price."
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"Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price."
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"You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind."
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"Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price."
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"I think the reason that very few people really fall in love with anyone is that they're not willing to pay the price."
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"My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age."
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"For every dream of yours that you make come true, you'll pay the price in heartbreak."
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