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• Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that day I paid that day with my heart Fro and to in my dreams to you With the breaking of my heart Ne'er more again will I sing this song Ne'er more will I hear the harp.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dream, Song, Heart

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.34, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• ...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Long, Greed

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.153, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I noticed you tore down Donovan's house." He lifted his gaze until it locked with mine. "He's alive because he left town. His house chose to stay. It paid the price.

  Darynda Jones

  House, Alive, Towns

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.315, Macmillan

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• Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potter’s really putting it through its paces now, see it turn — Chang’s Comet is just no match for it, the Firebolt’s precision-balance is really noticeable in these long —” “JORDAN! ARE YOU BEING PAID TO ADVERTISE FIREBOLTS? GET ON WITH THE COMMENTARY!

  J. K. Rowling

  Zero, Long, Balance

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• Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love You, Suffering, Poor

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.24, A&C Black

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• If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.

  Joanne Harris

  Writing, Care, Want

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• She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

  Liane Moriarty

  Mistake, People, Arbitrary

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• The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid.

  Richard Cantillon

  Time, Crafts, Being The Best

  1730-4 Essay on the Nature of Trade.

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• I bargained with Life for a penny, and Life would pay no more. However I begged at the evening when I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer, he gives you what you ask. But once you have set the wages, why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, only to learn, dismayed, that any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Giving

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1939). “The moving tide: new and selected lyrics by Jessie B. Rittenhouse...”

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• In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

  Harold Geneen

  Life, Motivational, Graduation

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

  Patricia Ireland

  Equality, Littles, Food Stamps

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• The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.

  Linda Grant

  Daughter, Mother, War

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• I worked for a menial's hire,
  Only to learn, dismayed,
  That any wage I had asked of Life,
  Life would have paid.

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Inspirational, Life, Think And Grow Rich

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1918). “The Door of Dreams”

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• You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Life, Teacher, Children

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

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• If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Mark Twain (1966). “Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques”, p.185, Univ of California Press

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• We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

  Samuel Gompers

  Party, Intelligent, Opportunity

  Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1906). “The American Federationist”

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• I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell.

  Erma Bombeck

  Travel, Night

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• Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Work, Pay, Pleasure

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• We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Come Up, Breakthrough

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• Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want to feel as though I`m being taken advantage of... The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn`t go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure... I`m an eccentric actor, and there`s a lot of us around.

  Ian Mckellen

  Taken, Adventure, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

  Franklin A. Thomas

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

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• No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 14, 2013

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• I've always had a really developed sense of justice. As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear that they might come alive at midnight and one of them would always have the best dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose has paid off in my career because, really, an actor is all about empathy and imagination. And those are the cornerstones of activism.

  Susan Sarandon

  Children, Careers, Justice

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• Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Easter, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, Easter Season

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

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• A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.

  B. C. Forbes

  Acceptance, Pay The Price, Self

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