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• Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  War, Saturn, Months

  "Doomsday averted" by Caitlín R. Kiernan, greygirlbeast.livejournal.com. January 16, 2005.

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• A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Fighting, Enemy, Operators

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.35, John Wiley & Sons

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• One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Giving Up, Two, Trying

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.76, John Wiley & Sons

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• The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Air, Average, Essence

  Speech at the Bombay Rotary Club on November 02, 1943. "Keynote: Excerpts from his speeches and chairman's statements to shareholders". Book by J. R. D Tata, 1986.

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• Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

  Conan O'Brien

  Book, Texas, Worry

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• There are reports that President Obama and his family may move to New York City after his term is over. Unfortunately, the city is so expensive, he's looking for another ex-president to be roommates with.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Moving, Cities

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• College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.

  Gerald Chertavian

  College, Years, Cost

  "Big Think Interview With Gerald Chertavian". bigthink.com.

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• Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation Practice, Support, World

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• Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in front of you without having to sift through a lot of thoughts and theories and, yes, expensive fishing tackle.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  John Gierach (2013). “Trout Bum”, p.24, Graphic Arts Books

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• Some people harbor the idea or belief that all teachers should teach for free. Obviously these people have never been teachers, particularly in the twentieth century. Teaching meditation is a very expensive hobby.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Buddhism

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• Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Water, Dominance, Projects

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• In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one of their most formidable and expensive tasks. Ships have always been large, costly and complicated, and warships much more complicated and costly than any others. Scholars are nowadays inclined to emphasize the power, wealth and sophistication of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and there is not more striking illustration of this than the advanced and elaborate administrative structures of the early English navy.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Illustration, Naval Warfare, Navy

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• On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on a glacier in Alaska. Right after that one, I went and pitched this idea to skate in three National Parks. Like Voyageurs National Park, because it freezes over and you have these little islands that you can skate around. [The networks] were like, 'Way too expensive.'

  Brian Boitano

  Sports, Ideas, Alaska

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• This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, Home, Office

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• It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

  Derek Jacobi

  England, Television, Bigs

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• There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be so. It is just the way our economic system is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Our World, Way

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• Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Giving, Wife

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• ... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Simple, Long

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of
  information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Age, Information, Lasts

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• Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

  Thucydides

  Commodity, Be Prepared, Prepared

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• After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Korea, Cuba, Lasts

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• I took part in two 'Leverage' conventions. Fans fly in from as far as Russia and Australia. It's expensive to attend.

  Gina Bellman

  Russia, Two, Australia

  "Gina Bellman on Leverage: 'Fandom is a world with no prejudice'". www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2013.

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• I think CGI is interesting but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.

  Ben Wheatley

  Thinking, Interesting, Shots

  "Ben Wheatley's 'Freakshift' to shoot in 2014 with American cast". Interview with Will Dix, www.digitalspy.com. July 19, 2013.

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• Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.

  Anna Netrebko

  Beautiful, Home, Thinking

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