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• As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Writing, Opportunity, Self

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• University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers . . . and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.

  Isaac Asimov

  Money, Philosophy, President

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• Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

  Jessica Mitford

  Dying, Macabre, Gracious

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• Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

  Ann Macbeth

  Risk, World, Film

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• I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Smart, Clothes, Waste

  "Kirsty Gallacher: The last five things I bought" by Dinah Turner, www.mirror.co.uk. April 17, 2012.

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• If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs

  Red Adair

  Thinking, Trying, Hiring

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• A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Food, Gourmet, Want

  Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.26, Random House

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• We didn’t want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive.  It’s very rare to be able to do that.  It’s completely pure.

  Julie Delpy

  Creative, Want, Able

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• Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

  Dennis Gabor

  Wire, Telephones, Principles

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• FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Years, Mind, Use

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

  William Dunbar

  Men, Law, Skills

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• Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, People, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.462, Courier Corporation

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• Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest.

  Rich Hall

  America, Evil, News

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• Term Life Insurance is the only insurance I recommend. It's the least expensive way to get the coverage your family needs and allows you to lock in rates for 15, 20 or 30 years. Zander's online quoting system will help you find the most competitive options. It's more affordable than you think!

  Dave Ramsey

  Thinking, Years, Needs

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• In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

  Walter Isaacson

  Age, Baghdad, Needs

  "Buying the War". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2007.

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• If you think research is expensive, try disease!

  Mary Lasker

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Trying

  "The Lasker Legacy". www.laskerfoundation.org.

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• When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after lots of effort, is a working system that cannot be easily maintained or upgraded. Good -but not great- programmers would fail early, causing a realization that the system must be redesigned, and then reimplemented. The extra cost is paid once, early in the system's cycle (when it is cheap), instead of repeatedly paid late in the system's cycle (when it is more expensive).

  Richard E. Pattis

  Learning, Design Work, Effort

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• We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and
  businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Yield, Years

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.

  Gordon Bethune

  Watches, Aviation, Airline

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• I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Business, Poor Quality

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• If you want to be a theater actor, where do you live now? Young actors struggle on a Broadway salary. A lot of them live in shoe boxes; some of them are literally three to a shoebox. New York has gotten prohibitively expensive.

  Stephen Spinella

  New York, Struggle, Shoes

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

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• Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Creativity, Creative, Answers

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• Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Memories, News, Pieces

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• In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell

  Will Rogers

  Real, Eye, Men

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• They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be able to beat taxes, but not now. The undertaker don't go over your body as carefully as the assessor does your accumilated assets, and he gets his before the undertaker. They have it on these big fortunes now where they pay as high as 60 to 70 percent of what they leave. That's mighty expensive dying when it runs into money like that, and you won't see 'em dropping off as casually as they have been.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Over You, Dying

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