"We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment."
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"I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true."
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"It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare."
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"Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that."
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"Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now."
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"Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission."
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"I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership."
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"I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me."
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"I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway."
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"Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off."
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"How much would you pay...for the Universe?"
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"If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good."
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"Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?"
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"If you lose yourself, then no one's going to respect or pay attention to anything you have."
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"The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich."
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"If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program."
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"The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."
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"People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now."
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"The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking money from the state for doing nothing. So it's - it's an essentially corrupt society."
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"Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay."
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