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• But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Effort, Understanding, Morality

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Temptation, Earth, Intense

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• Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Life, Fire, Iron

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.

  Judith Martin

  Country, Freedom, Equality

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• Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.

  Rob Zombie

  Mean, Careers, Band

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• The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.The result of a business is a satisfied customer. The result of a hospital is a satisfied patient. The result of a school is a student who has learned something and puts it to work ten years later. Inside an enterprise there are only costs.

  Peter Drucker

  School, Years, Important

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The New Realities”, p.222, Routledge

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• One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

  James Q. Wilson

  Broken, Care, Window

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.126, American Enterprise Institute

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• Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

  James Q. Wilson

  Broken, Doe, Care

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.126, American Enterprise Institute

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• None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.

  Clint Eastwood

  Risk, Twenties, Dollars

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• It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church members have a right to believe in and propagate their various doctrines. But they should pay every item of the cost, of this propaganda, including fair taxation for all church property.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Believe, Church, Taxation

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• Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses, and for misrepresenting the cost of the venture, there is no excuse for how he chose to finance it. His was the first war in history paid for entirely on credit. As America went into battle, with deficits already soaring from his 2001 tax cut, Bush decided to plunge ahead with yet another round of tax "relief" for the wealthy.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Cutting, America

  "The True Cost of 9/11" by Joseph Stiglitz, www.slate.com. September 1, 2011.

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• You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, traveling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abscesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say "yes."

  Terry Pratchett

  Mother, Children, Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The companies move labor to the lowest-cost markets. And so I don`t - I used to support these agreements. In the Congress, I lost the AFL-CIO endorsement a few years because I supported them. But when middle class incomes are declining, these agreements don`t work well for America.

  Charles Schumer

  Moving, Agreement, Years

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a..."simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big.

  Eric Fellner

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I think everyone's going to really try to keep costs down. The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively. I can protect my filmmakers from any form of creative interference, be it from anywhere, if we're all acting in a responsible way and making the pain of a failure be as little as possible.

  Eric Fellner

  Pain, Thinking, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• I would like to do more feature work. I intend to do that. To be really honest, it's an economic thing because when you make a film that doesn't make what it cost back, it's very difficult to get back in the ring.

  Roman Coppola

  Honest, Film, Economic

  Source: collider.com

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• There are major challenges, when it comes to making a film in the Arctic. When you're filming wildlife and that wildlife doesn't necessarily take direction, you can spend a lot of time waiting, where you're debating whether or not you should press the record button because it costs a lot of money.

  Greg MacGillivray

  Waiting, Challenges, Buttons

  Source: collider.com

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• We have a conservative government that only thinks in terms of efficiency. They are spending a lot of money on military expenses and less and less on culture. My position is that culture can actually be economically viable. When I make a film, the film costs $3 million. Now, in Quebec, it grossed $3.5 million, which is a small film. It's not a comedy. There are no stars in it. And, it still grosses $3.5 million. That's just in Quebec.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Stars, Military, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Most people who love movies and kind of understand the process realize that if you do a character like Gollum or Jar Jar or any major digital character, that costs twice as much as having Tom Cruise in a movie.

  Rick McCallum

  Character, People, Movie Love

  Source: collider.com

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• After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the same politicians are now carrying on a crusade for 'affordable health care.' But what you can afford has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of producing anything. Refusing to pay those costs means that you are just not going to continue getting the same quantity and quality - regardless of what any politician says or how well he says it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Political, Quality

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• I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.

  Warren Buffett

  Fun, Cost Of Living, Doe

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• Depression must be avoided, no matter what the cost. Depression is lying on the Edwardian couch for six months, too tired to unlace your shoes. Depression is awakening each morning feeling as if someone near and dear and closely related died the night before. Bad news. Don't tempt depression.

  Tim Sandlin

  Morning, Lying, Tired

  Tim Sandlin (2010). “Social Blunders: A Novel”, p.8, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.

  Rory Vaden

  Procrastination, Today, Invisible

  Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.37, Penguin

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• The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

  Saint Augustine

  Obedience, Disobedience

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• Delhi is excellent. Everything looks so beautiful. In Bombay, we don't have such beautiful roads, spacious places, and you cannot have the luxury of having houses and bungalows. You have to live in little pokey flats and cost of living is extremely high in Mumbai. Delhi has a lot that people keep preserving... a lot of which is what Delhi is about.

  Bipasha Basu

  Beautiful, Cost Of Living, Luxury

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