"For every promise, there is a price to pay... If the promise is clear, the price is easy."
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"Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96"
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"I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life."
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"You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get."
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"Pay attention to that which sees the mind."
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"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."
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"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay."
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"But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay."
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"He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence."
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"It pays to be prepared."
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"It doesn't pay to ignore warnings. Even when they don't make sense."
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"Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again"
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"I'm down for whatever. You just lead the way. We go to dinner you don't even look at me to pay"
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"Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself - as being a free, black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences."
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"Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good."
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"We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there."
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"Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest."
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"In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever."
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"Taigs don't pay rates."
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"I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20."
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