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• Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

  Patricia McCormick

  Luxury, May

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• Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Religious, Effort, Political

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• Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Men, Choices, Matter

  Robert Penn Warren (1946). “All the king's men”

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• What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me! But you're far from this. Your fingers turn the strangeness of these pages that somehow connect my life to yours. Your eyes are safe. The story is just another few hundred pages of your mind. For me, it's here. It's now. I have to go through with this, considering the cost at every turn. Nothing will be the same.

  Markus Zusak

  Eye, Mind, Stories

  "The Messenger". Book by Markus Zusak, January 10, 2002.

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• Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

  Suzanne Collins

  People, Murder, Innocent

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

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• All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power, and your soul power—‘Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.’ (Matt. 7:7.) But you have to seek, you have to knock. On the other hand, sin thrusts itself upon you. It walks beside you, it tempts you, it entices, it allures. You do not have to put forth effort. … Evil seeks you, and it requires effort and fortitude to combat it. But truth and wisdom are gained only by seeking, by prayer, and by effort.

  David O. McKay

  Prayer, Hands, Evil

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• Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.

  Colleen McCullough

  Song, Pain, Heart

  Colleen McCullough (1977). “The Thorn Birds”

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• One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rich, Contradiction, Being Rich

  "Nietzsche: His Philosophy of Contradictions and the Contradictions of His Philosophy". Book by Wolfgang Müller-Lauter (p. 7), January 1, 1999.

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• Something about this boat screamed, "I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!

  Maureen Johnson

  Oil, Soul, World

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• As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.

  Noam Chomsky

  Past, Risk, Phases

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy”, p.126, Macmillan

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• The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Powerful, Thinking, Men

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• For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Heart, Three, Afternoon

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• Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Mean, Victory, Important

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.227, Macmillan

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• Is love the desire—no, the need—to be with that person, whatever the cost? Does it cause the rue of rage when you see that person with another? Does it make you ache to hold her, to whisper things that sound foreign and strange to your tongue? Does it make you wish for things you know can never be? I haven't the answers, Riley. In all that I've learned over the years, no one has ever mentioned a force such as this. But whatever it is, I feel it for you. We would have been good together.

  Keri Arthur

  Years, Together, Wish

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• It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.

  George S. Clason

  Wise, Good Friend, Advice

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Well, I’ve learnt this much: it doesn’t matter what it costs, it’s worth paying the price. You can’t live cheap and you can’t live for nothing. Pay the price and be proud you’ve paid it, that’s what I reckon.

  John Marsden

  Pay The Price, Proud, Matter

  John Marsden (1996). “Darkness, Be My Friend”

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• He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Hands, Christ, Thee

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• You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.

  Brad Meltzer

  Decisions We Make, Decision, Life Decision

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• I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech or as wealthy as we would like, but in a world of varied talents and fortunes that we can't always command, I think that makes even more attractive the qualities we can command--such qualities as thoughtfulness, patience, a kind word, and true delight in the accomplishment of another. These cost us nothing, and they can mean everything to the one who receives them.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Beautiful, Witty, School

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• ... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears. So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, I’m afraid. There is no use in mourning one such as I, dearest... -Simon to Lucy in a letter before the last duel.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Regret, Afterlife, Mourning

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• Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul.

  Sara Gruen

  Dream, Horse, Lying

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.195, Hachette UK

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• Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.

  Alexandre Dumas-fils

  Children, Flower, Butterfly

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• Human will is the strongest will ever created. There are those who are born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it at all costs. They won’t be denied. Nothing daunts them.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, Determined To Succeed, Born

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.162, St. Martin's Griffin

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• For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Jesus Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened," He assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way. These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus. He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship. He knew that following Him was as unsentimental as duty, as demanding as love.

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Jesus, Disappointment

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• Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule.

  Carl Sagan

  Country, Ignorance, Government

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.546, Ballantine Books

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