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• My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.

  Bill Gates

  Dad, School, Successful

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• The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.

  Henry Ford

  Fall, Government, Giving

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• A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

  Jaime Lerner

  Ideas, People, Assuming

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• Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

  Peter McWilliams

  Men, Thinking, Luxury

  Peter McWilliams (1995). “Love 101: to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”

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• The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Distance, Home, College

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• In the Middle Age, in Germany, if you wanted to learn addition and multiplication, you could go to any university. But if you wanted to learn division, you could only do it in one place, Heidelberg. This makes sense, since in my theory with Vladimir Retakh and Robert Wilson, addition and multiplications are cheap, but division is expensive.

  Israel Gelfand

  Science, Age, Germany

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• High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not help create open space, they destroy the townscape, they destroy social life, they promote crime, they make life difficult for children, they are expensive to maintain, they wreck the open spaces near them, and they damage light and air and view.

  Christopher Alexander

  Children, Light, Air

  Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein (1977). “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction”, p.115, Oxford University Press

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• It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run by the private sector will get better and cheaper over time. The fact that [Obamacare] starts this badly does not bode well....We want healthcare run on the same system that gave us cell phones, flat screens, Jerry Garcia chia pets. Everything you submit to the free market...keeps getting better and better.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, Money, Party

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• He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and … he who does the best work at the lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.

  Henry R. Towne

  Work, Design, Doe

  "Shop management; a paper read before the American society of mechanical engineers". Book by F.W. Taylor, New York, Foreword, 1911.

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• There's a lot of things that I've done to stick into the box set. You never have it this good. I think people should bargain. They shouldn't just buy the set, it's a little expensive [anyway]. But they should say - I'll give them dialogue, I'm a good writer.

  Mel Brooks

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "INTERVIEW Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. December 13, 2012.

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• In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Technology, College, Keys

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• By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Different, Eras, Furniture

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• Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination.

  Arthur Frommer

  Nicaragua, Becoming, Destination

  Arthur Frommer (2009). “Ask Arthur Frommer: And Travel Better, Cheaper, Smarter”, p.329, John Wiley & Sons

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• Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.

  Mason Cooley

  Culture, Form, Respectability

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• High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way through total cost of ownership.

  Capers Jones

  Quality, Cost, Development

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• Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Law, Proceeding

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• And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.

  Paul the Apostle

  Clothes, Hair, Gold

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• The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Simple, Complicated

  Henry Adams “The Letters of Henry Adams”

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• Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Beer, Marijuana, Law

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1985). “Right Reason: A Collection”, Doubleday Books

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• There is no "scientific worldview" just as there is no uniform enterprise "science" - except in the minds of metaphysicians, school masters, and scientists blinded by the achievements of their own particular niche... There is no objective principle that could direct us away from the supermarket "religion" or the supermarket "art" toward the more modern, and much more expensive supermarket "science." Besides, the search for such guidance would be in conflict with the idea of individual responsibility which allegedly is an important ingredient of a "rational" or scientific age.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Art, Responsibility, School

  "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Richness". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1999.

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• Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.

  Rory Sutherland

  Motivation, Inspiration, Looks

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• Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are also large, expensive to maintain, difficult to manage, and they pollute the environment. It is astonishing that these devices continue to be manufactured and deployed. But they are sufficiently pervasive that we must design our protocols around their limitations.)

  Charlie Kaufman

  Keys, Design, Quality

  "Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World". Book by Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman and Mike Speciner, April 22, 2002.

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• Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us.'

  Newt Gingrich

  Age, Needs, Credit

  "Your Daily Newt: A $40 Billion Entitlement for Laptops" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. December 20, 2011.

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• The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
  Younger and pinker every year,
  Bloom gradually out of reach.

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Girl, Women, Years

  W. D. Snodgrass, “April Inventory”

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• Being dismantled before our eyes are not just individual programs that politicians cite as too expensive but the whole idea that society has a stake in the well-being of children down the block and the security of families on the other side of town. Whether or not kids eat well, are nurtured and have a roof over their heads is not just a consequence of how their parents behave. It is also a responsibility of society--but now apparently a diminishing one.

  Richard Stolley

  Children, Block, Kids

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