Meek Mill
Rapper
"They say money rule the world, you can’t pay God with it"
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Mary Oliver
Poet
"Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."
Cornel West
Philosopher
"There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie."
Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
Clara Barton
Nurse, Activist
"I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay."
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"Money won't buy you happiness, but it'll pay for the search"
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"I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent."
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"Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth."
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"I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here."
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"The longer we delay, the more we will pay."
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"A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness"
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"Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness."
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"What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge."
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"In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get."
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"A Lannister always pays his debts."
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"The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs."
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"If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself."
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"If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?"
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"Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to state that its about work, its not about welfare... Set up a grace period where they can get a work permit... social security card so that they can pay income tax, social security, Medicare."
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"We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light."
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"My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"
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"I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have."
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"The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so"
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"I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me."
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"The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies."
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