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• At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

  Puff Daddy

  Jobs, People, Age

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• I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

  Mark Wahlberg

  People, Complaining

  "The GQ&A: Mark Wahlberg". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. January 11, 2012.

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• I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

  Michael Chertoff

  Pain, Mistake, Thinking

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• My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

  Jim Rohn

  Business, Father, Taught

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 07, 2017

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• The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

  Eric Ambler

  Important, Bullets, Shots

  A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939).

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• The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

  Dick Gephardt

  Political, President, Helping

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• An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid

  Gary Miller

  Country, Cutting, Pay

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• When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.

  Mary Ruwart

  Children, Parent, Use

  "Short answers to the tough questions". Book by Mary Ruwart, content.time.com. 1998.

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• I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Want, Pay

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

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• Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.

  Warren Buffett

  Needs, Investing, May

  "7 Warren Buffett Quotes For Active Investors". www.seeitmarket.com. November 26, 2014.

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• Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us personally. Some children will make poor choices just as some adults do in smoking and drinking to excess; this is part of life. When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.

  Mary Ruwart

  Children, Drinking, Decision

  "Short answers to the tough questions". Book by Mary Ruwart, content.time.com. 1998.

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• The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Essence, Grace, Discipleship

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.3, SCM Press

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• A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Artist, Culture, Property

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Compliment, Tragic, Inexorable

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

  Julian Schnabel

  Kids, Surfing, Attention

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• There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

  Thomas Sowell

  Political, Benefits, Politician

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.217, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Women saying "I'm not a feminist" is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist.

  Lena Dunham

  Jobs, Believe, Men

  "Girls’ Lena Dunham: Women saying ‘I’m not a feminist’ is my greatest pet peeve" by Jane Mulkerrins, metro.co.uk. January 14, 2013.

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• The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might be filled with compassion," and being now prepared to reach down and help us, he is forbidden because we won't let him. We look down instead of up.

  Truman G. Madsen

  Life, Compassion, Preparation

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• Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Country, Work

  "Along Broadway: The Edison Musical Magazine".

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• You don't get paid for being brave!

  William Vacchiano

  Brave, Musical

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• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Stars, Japan, Germany

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

  Mitch Daniels

  Jobs, Believe, Recovery

  "SOTU: GOP Response". abcnews.go.com.

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• I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president.

  Howard Dean

  Thinking, People, President

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• Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

  Ian Botham

  Mother, Men, Law

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• From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.

  William Peter Blatty

  Men, House, Black

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