"In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy."
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"In this world, you get what you pay for."
"The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay attention to or place values on spoken or written language, then we are ruling out a large area of human language."
"Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter."
"It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend."
"Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay."
"I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills."
"Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity."
"I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?"
"I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash."
"Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for."
"The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better."
"What we're all looking for is someone who doesn't live there, just pays for it."
"For some reason people take their cues from price action rather than from values. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
"Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away."
"How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable."
"The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it."
"A man often pays dear for a small frugality."
"Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government."
"You know what I'd really, really like? What I'd pay MONEY for? A ZX81 with a disc drive. I understood the ZX81. It was so easy to interface stuff to it."