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• Why is divorce so expensive? Because it's worth it!

  Garrison Keillor

  Divorce, Worth It

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• Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.

  Sunil Bharti Mittal

  Skills, People, Growth

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• Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again

  Delia Smith

  Kitchen, Pay, Lasts

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• Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. It is ironic that the US should be fighting monstrously expensive wars, allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.

  Paul Hellyer

  Country, War, Mean

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• It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Real, Expression, Order

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• Authors in general don’t have a lot of money, and lawsuits are expensive.

  James D. Macdonald

  Lawsuit, Lots Of Money

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• There are two types of girls: those that can make cheap clothes look expensive and those that make designer clothes look cheap.

  Lauren Santo Domingo

  Girl, Designer Clothes, Two

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2011

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• Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

  Andree Putman

  Beautiful, Feelings, Secret

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• I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

  Bunker Roy

  Motivation, Inspiration, India

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• The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.

  Alan Russell

  Motivation, Inspiration, Care

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• But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.

  Daphne Guinness

  Long, Interesting, Lasts

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• Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Men, Years, Care

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• It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right.

  Ed Seykota

  Trying, Convince

  "Trend Following: Learn to Make Millions in Up or Down Markets". Book by Michael Covel, 2009.

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• The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist. They assume that something that was a good investment in the recent past is still a good investment. Typically, high past returns simply imply that an asset has become more expensive and is a poorer, not better, investment.

  Ray Dalio

  Mistake, Believe, Past

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• The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on playgrounds. Fans still ruin expensive suits going after foul balls that cost five dollars. Hitting streaks still make the network news and hot dogs still taste better at the ballpark than at home.

  Duke Snider

  Sports, Baseball, Dog

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

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• Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

  John Guare

  Art, People, Doe

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• With the increasing price levels, the farmers are benefiting. Dal, atta, vegetables have all become expensive. I am happy with this price rise. The more the prices rise the better it is for farmers

  Beni Prasad Verma

  Vegetables, Levels, Farmers

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• Yes, Hackney has got more expensive, but so has rest of London

  Meg Hillier

  Hackney, London

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• We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for
  deeper meanings.

  Allen Steck

  Climbing, Essentials, Useless

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• Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Book, Luxury, Choices

  Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books

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• Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy we will have to do business as usual, because cleaning up the environment, mitigating climate change is just too costly. Well, I say the business of poverty is just too expensive a bill for humanity to pay any longer.

  Majora Carter

  Color, People, Community

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• Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Mediocrity

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• Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

  Phillip Noyce

  Kids, Eating, Like You

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• Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Looks, Today, Couture

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.

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• It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Aggravation, Cost, Degradation

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