"True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things."
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"When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention."
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"I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth."
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"As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie."
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"If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing."
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"Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor."
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"Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society."
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"Write without pay until somebody offers to pay."
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"The pay is good and I can walk to work."
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"There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all transactions could be settled immediately. People would pay each other electronically, without the payment being routed through anything that we would currently recognize as a bank. Central banks in their present form would no longer exist – nor would money."
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"Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds."
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"There is a price to pay for accomplishment."
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"Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about."
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"I am faced with a bruising dilemma: pay to fix the dishwasher or continue serving everything in waffle cones."
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"The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them."
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"I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability."
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"An investment in education always pays the highest returns."
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"Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own."
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"If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it."
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"It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience."
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