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• There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.

  L. Neil Smith

  Ambitious, Selfless, Massachusetts

  "Pursuing Invariably the Same Object". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 18, 2010.

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• This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and bankers, a level of remuneration that is economically irrational since, as investigations in the US have demonstrated, it tends to be inversely proportional to the company's success.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Opposites, Bankers, Bourgeoisie

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• We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fool, Worst, Ingratitude

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.83, Random House

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• We don't pay judges to think; we pay judges to rule on the law.

  Jeff Sessions

  Thinking, Law, Judging

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• Vibrations never lie. A person could be saying one thing and yet, thinking another. Get to the point where you pay closer attention to the vibrations you are receiving rather than the words you are hearing. Intuition is one of the most valuable mental tools you possess. Begin to consciously use it. Your rewards will be worth the effort.

  Bob Proctor

  Lying, Thinking, Effort

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 11, 2017

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• Everyone has some natural talent or aptitude in one or more areas. If you can identify those areas you not only will be happier and perform more successfully in that role, but you will also become better paid for that. Our free-market system pays for performance at some point. When you have a natural talent or aptitude, coupled with desire and experience, the result is productivity plus.

  Dave Ramsey

  Natural Talent, Desire, Aptitude

  Dave Ramsey (2002). “Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families”, p.49, Penguin

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• Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.

  Charles Stross

  Fighting, Had Enough, Demon

  Charles Stross (2010). “Overtime: A Tor.Com Original”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of - because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. Accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best (or even good) interests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place.

  Erik Naggum

  Fighting, Long, People

  "Source access vs dynamism". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. August 28, 1999.

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• Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Trying, Taught, Attention

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• When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.

  Linda Stone

  Desire, Different, Tasks

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• The TV and the public pay our wages and they like to see professional golfers mess it up. Missing a green with a chip shot - when do you see that? It's great to see exciting golf like we had last week.

  Paul McGinley

  Golf, Missing, Lasts

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• But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.

  Maria Konnikova

  Moving, Attention, Awareness

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?

  Maria Konnikova

  Ideas, Stopping, Attention

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.16, Penguin

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• What you can't pay back you pay forward.

  Jo Walton

  Debt

  Jo Walton (2006). “Farthing”, p.165, Macmillan

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• Things have value Because somebody buys them, Because somebody pays money; If you can find a buyer, Even a lie is worth a thousand yen.

  Kobo Abe

  Lying, Buyers, Thousand

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• The burden of Karma is heavy. All alike have heavy debts to pay. Yet none, so the Wisdom teaches, is ever faced with more than he can bear. Whether or not we can grin, we must bear it, and it is folly to attempt to run away.

  Christmas Humphreys

  Karma, Running, Debt

  Christmas Humphreys (1983). “Karma and rebirth”, Routledge

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• Bad karma is the spiritual debt one has accumulated for one's mistakes from all previous lives and this life. It includes killing, harming, taking advantage, cheating, stealing, and more. On Mother Earth, when you buy a house, you take out a mortgage from a bank. This mortgage is your debt to the bank. You pay every month for fifteen, twenty, or thirty years to clear your financial debt. In the spiritual realm, if you have bad karma, you may have to pay for many lifetimes to clear your spiritual debt.

  Zhi Gang Sha

  Karma, Mother, Spiritual

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• Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.

  Al Alvarez

  Self, Media, Psychics

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.274, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting asteroids, or whatever seems appropriate. We've got millions and millions of people who want to go into space, who are willing to pay. When you figure in the payload potential of customers, everything changes.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Space, People

  "Buzz Aldrin: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 25, 2012.

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• I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now.

  Ezra Miller

  Country, School, People

  The Cinema Source, September 08, 2011.

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• The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, "For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody - and make them pay through the nose."

  Andrew Tobias

  Cost, Noses, Lines

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Differences, Asking, Fundamentals

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him mainstream clout) would be interested in making this film. The lure of an exact remake presents a tremendous challenge. Unfortunately, it was undoubtedly a lot more stimulating for Van Sant and his crew to make Psycho than it is for an audience to watch it. Curiosity is going to be one of the primary reasons why people pay money to see this movie; boredom will be the predominant result.

  James Berardinelli

  Hunting, People, Boredom

  "Psycho (United States, 1998)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 1998.

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• Wonderful, I like cars, too, I like all the great things you can buy in a department store. But when you have to buy them in order to stay unaware, comatose, then the price you pay is too high.

  Gudrun Ensslin

  Order, Car, Wonderful

  "Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History". Book by Siegfried Zielinski, 1999.

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• Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war.

  Jackson C. Frank

  War, Eye, Men

  "Song: "Don't Look Back"". 1965.

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