"I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me."
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"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."
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"I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?"
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"It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little."
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"When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do."
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"He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard."
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"All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready."
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"What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?"
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"Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!"
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"Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them."
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"Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you."
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"You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes."
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"What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you."
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"I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot"
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"You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity."
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"The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us"
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"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market."
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"They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work."
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"Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just."
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"In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished."
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