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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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• I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Government, Female

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.144, Jazzybee Verlag

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• How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Dream, Sleep, Promise

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

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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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• Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .

  Albert Pike

  Justice, Hypocrisy, Vices

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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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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• The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.

  Orson Scott Card

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.97, Macmillan

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• President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.

  David Letterman

  Blue, President, Want

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• Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.

  Cyril Connolly

  Country, Mistake, Character

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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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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• Let all those in government be warned: They cannot order people to pay for the murder of babies, and betray God Himself, without horrific consequences.

  Randall Terry

  Baby, Government, Order

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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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• Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Palate

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The history of Tom Jones”, p.45

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• Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.

  Sophocles

  Home, Men, Pay The Price

  Sophocles (2017). “Antigone”, p.10, Youcanprint

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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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• And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?

  John Ruskin

  Dirty, Land, Bye

  John Ruskin (1865). “Sesame and Lilies, etc”, p.69

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• I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are not easily available. You have to earn entrance into them. You didn't learn things for too little. You had to pay a price. And I felt that LSD was just blasting superhighways into the mysteries. And what I really didn't like about LSD is that people who were taking it were seeming to become less and less as they took it. They got emptier and more vapid.

  Norman Mailer

  Strong, People, Feelings

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  Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.

  Arthur Miller

  House, Lifetime, Salesman

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.150, Penguin

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• Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Enlightenment, Elegance, Glad

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.87, Penguin

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• I don't like reality television, but it pays so much money.

  Pamela Anderson

  Reality, Television, Reality Television

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