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• It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

  Randi Rhodes

  Honesty, Lying, Two

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• It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Death, Cutting, Science

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• People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.

  Gene Spafford

  People, Safety, Belts

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• But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess, That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

  William Allen Butler

  Mean, Dresses, Dollars

  William Allen Butler (1871). “Poems”, p.72

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• Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.

  Aaron Tippin

  Freedom, Believe, Echoes

  Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly

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• I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

  George III

  War, Science, Humanity

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• For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in faith. On the pragmatic view the only thing that matters is that the theory is efficacious, that it 'works' and that the necessary preliminaries and side issues do not cost too much in time and effort. Beyond that, theory and concepts go to constitute a language in which the scientistic matters at issue can be formulated and discussed.

  Bertram Brockhouse

  Religious, Science, Views

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• [Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.

  Harold Urey

  Science, Research, Pennies

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• We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and cost advantage.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Addiction, Significant, Nicotine

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• Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

  Anne Frank

  Wisdom, Strong, Integrity

  Anne Frank (1959). “The Works of Anne Frank”, Greenwood Press

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• One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Truth, Lying, Honor

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• No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Integrity, Men, Ethics

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.27

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• It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.

  Meister Eckhart

  Spiritual, Should, Equal

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• The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark.

  Sheila Fraser

  Dark, Gun, Issues

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• I question why the department continued to watch the costs escalate without informing Parliament and without considering alternatives.

  Sheila Fraser

  Alternatives, Watches, Parliament

  "Ottawa hid huge costs of gun plan, audit finds". www.theglobeandmail.com. December 4, 2002.

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• Peace is not automatic. It is a gift of the grace of God. It comes when hearts are exposed to the love of Christ. But this always costs something. For the love of Christ was demonstrated through suffering and those who experience that love can never put it into practice without some cost.

  Festo Kivengere

  Love, God, Christian

  Festo Kivengere, Dorothy Smoker (1977). “I Love Idi Amin: The Story of Triumph Under Fire in the Midst of Suffering and Persecution in Uganda”

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• People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

  Roger McNamee

  Music, Powerful, People

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• By far the best cure for hangovers is not drinking excessively the night before.This cure has a 100% success rate, and as you save the cost of the drinks you would have otherwise drunk, it is cheaper than free.

  John Green

  Real, Drinking, Hangover

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• Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Opportunity, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.787, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently needed. Future generations cannot be saddled with the cost of our use of common environmental resources.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Space, Environmental, Generations

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• If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Education, Children

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less than the saving to mankind due to the information gained. But that is a dream.

  Lewis Fry Richardson

  Dream, Weather, Information

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• Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time. To share in love costs us money. Every act of love costs us in some way, just as it cost God to love us. But we are to live a life of love just as Christ loves us and gave Himself for us at great cost to Himself.

  Jerry Bridges

  Valentines Day, Love Is, Justice

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• Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.

  Rajneesh

  Responsibility, Maturity, Trying

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• So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they do? Increasingly, the U.S. market is driving them toward drugs aimed at the diseases of richer, older Americans and away from antimicrobials, vaccines, and the like.

  Donald Kennedy

  Vaccines, Medicine, Drug

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