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"If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work."
"Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays."
"A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten."
"A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only."
"Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul."
"[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them."
"Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn."
"A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes."
"The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."
"The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it."
"Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks are going up, he happily pays more than their objective value; and, when they are going down, he is desperate to dump them for less than their true worth."
"A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay."
"I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that."
"Life will pay any price you ask of it."
"You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'"
"We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude."
"A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt."
"A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us."
"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge."
"Once you have seen and felt your ideal future, you will be ready and able to pay any price to get there."
