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• Even if a movie's not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It's the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best.

  Scott Raab

  Firsts, Levels, Bigs

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."

  Diogenes

  Wine, People, Drink

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• If the quality is there, the consumer will want it, buy it and pay for it.

  Frank Perdue

  Quality, Want, Consumers

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• Employers must make far-reaching changes to employment terms and conditions for women: Equal pay for equal, decent work.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Equal Pay, Employment, Reaching

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• The Lord’s purposes are often accomplished as we pay heed to the guidance of the Spirit. I believe that the more we act upon the inspiration and impressions which come to us, the more the Lord will entrust to us His errands.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Believe, Inspiration, Purpose

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• What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?

  Paul Samuelson

  Jobs, Black Youth, Doe

  Paul A. Samuelson, Anthony Scott (1975). “Economics”

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• Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  People, Facts, Lawyer

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• [Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

  Alan Kay

  People, Fabulous, Artisans

  "Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums". Rolling Stone, wheels.org. December 07, 1972.

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• In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.

  O. Henry

  Art, Directors, Boards

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.671, Delphi Classics

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• The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, People, Sound

  William Jennings Bryan (1896). “The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896”

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• I have a terrible problem with procrastination. A friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Procrastination, Ideas, Waiting

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". Comedy, Documentary, June 25, 2003.

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• I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!

  Quentin Crisp

  Talking, Sitting, Rooms

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 15, 1968.

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• Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Government, Data

  "An Economic 'Plan'?". www.creators.com. September 09, 2012.

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• Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Cost, Damage

  "A Distant Mirror". Book by Barbara Tuchman, p. 81, 1978.

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• Man said, "I am tired of kings! Sons of the robber-chiefs of yore, They make me pay for their lust and their war; I am the puppet, they pull the strings; The blood of my heart is the wine they drink. I will govern myself for awhile I think, And see what that brings!

  Henry Van Dyke

  Kings, War, Tired

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Peace without Justice is a low estate,— A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,— We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Peace, Real, War

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

  John Ruskin

  Dirty, Clean, Pleasant

  'Sesame and Lilies' (1865) lecture 1 'Of Kings' Treasuries' 30, note

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• Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success

  John C. Maxwell

  Achieve

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• When you sleep in your cloak there 's no lodging to pay.

  George Whyte-Melville

  Sleep, Cloaks

  George John Whyte-Melville (1871). “M. Or N.: "Similia Similibus Curantur."”, p.76

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• Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages.

  Kingsley Amis

  Cheer, Believe, Reality

  Kingsley Amis (1992). “Lucky Jim”, Penguin Classics

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• It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.

  Stefan Zweig

  War, Blood, Enemy

  Stefan Zweig (1929). “Jeremiah: A Drama in Nine Scenes”, p.73, Library of Alexandria

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• One of my favorite places in San-Francisco is Aunt Charlies drag show. You pay $3 and see shows that literally give you goose bumps and bring you to tears. As a performer, you know they're giving 100% and you can't help but cry.

  Christopher Owens

  Aunt, San Francisco, Giving

  Source: www.gq.com

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• You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we have to pay you more, it will be bad for you." And that's because saying that is a much more polite way of saying, "I'm rich, you're poor, and I would prefer to keep it that way."

  Nick Hanauer

  Years, People, Way

  Source: gawker.com

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• I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.

  Nick Hanauer

  Thinking, Wings, Ideas

  Source: gawker.com

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• I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.

  Graham King

  Creative, Want, Enjoy

  Source: collider.com

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