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• ... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Accepting, Strikes, Possessiveness

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney (1998). “I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Random House (UK)

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• People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex bargain for her maintenance; the woman who is not married must therefore make a temporary bargain of the same kind.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  Sex, People, Wife

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• There is nothing so costly as bargains.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Shopping

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• There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.

  Vernon Lee

  Eye, Good Luck, Mean

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”

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• The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.

  Mary Jo Bang

  Grief, Wheels, Ifs

  Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• Experience is never at bargain price.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Experience

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• My problem with Obama is that he's not a new paradigm; he's an old paradigm. A new paradigm would be somebody like Harold Ford [former Democratic Congressman from Tennessee] or Michael Steele [former Republican Lieutenant Governor of Maryland], no relation, both of whom present themselves as individuals, and don't seem to wear a mask. They don't 'bargain;' they don't 'challenge.' So, I see them as fresh, and as evidence of what I hope will be a new trend.

  Shelby Steele

  Challenges, Would Be, Tennessee

  "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.

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• Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.

  Rebecca West

  Men, Support, Body

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• I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a great abuse on that gentleman's character. Perhaps he may sometimes desert those who are only his cup acquaintance; or who, at most, are but half his; but he generally stands by those who are thoroughly his servants, and helps them off in all extremities, till their bargain expires.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Gentleman, Abuse

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.933, Wesleyan University Press

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• Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

  Madeleine Albright

  Fun, Educational, Library

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• Typically, we make money when we buy things. We count the profits later, but we know we have captured them when we buy the bargain.

  Seth Klarman

  Making Money, Profit, Captured

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• The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Devil, Dues

  1596-7 Prince Harry. Henry IV Part One, act1, sc.2, l.117-8.

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• I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it's no longer an eagle and it's going to crash.

  Bill Moyers

  Eagles, Wings, Two

  "Bill Moyers Responds to CPB’s Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias: 'We Were Getting it Right, But Not Right Wing'". www.democracynow.org. May 16, 2005.

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• If you sell me a car, we have perhaps made a good bargain for ourselves. But there are effects of this transaction on others, which we do not take into account. There is more pollution, the price of gas goes up, there is more congestion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Car, Pollution, Made

  "The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Party, Past, Government

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• Organizing around a common interest is a fundamental part of democracy. We should no more try to take away the right of individuals to collectively bargain than we should try to take away the right to a secret ballot.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Secret, Democracy, Trying

  "Limit Pay, Not Unions". www.nytimes.com. February 27, 2011.

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• When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

  Sue Sanders

  Doctors, Greed, Dying

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• There's a lot of things that I've done to stick into the box set. You never have it this good. I think people should bargain. They shouldn't just buy the set, it's a little expensive [anyway]. But they should say - I'll give them dialogue, I'm a good writer.

  Mel Brooks

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "INTERVIEW Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Food is a big bargain in America, and you can go to these places, we all like them, and you get big portions, and they taste good. But they're higher in fat than ever before. And same thing has happened, by the way, though, to school menus. A lot of school lunch menus have more fat and more sugar than ever before.

  William J. Clinton

  School, Lunch, America

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• Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

  Cal Thomas

  Soldier, Devil, May

  "Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap just a pact with the devil?" by Cal Thomas, www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2014.

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• Limit risk with: Deep analysis Bargain purchase Sensitivity analysis.

  Seth Klarman

  Risk, Analysis, Limits

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• A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable to look at companies that were aggressively buying their own shares. They were motivated simply to buy below what it was worth.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Looks, Buying

  "Berkshire Behind the Scenes: Part 3". Interview with Rick Casterline, www.fool.com. May 30, 2006.

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• Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

  John le Carre

  Secret, Ends, Trade

  "The Mission Song". Book by John le Carre, September 2006.

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• We define a bargain issue as one which, on the basis of facts established by analysis, appears to be worth considerably more that it is selling for.

  Benjamin Graham

  Issues, Analysis, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.

  Benjamin Graham

  Issues, Quality, Portfolios

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.130, Prabhat Prakashan

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