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• I don't think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.

  Banksy

  Thinking, Should Have, Graffiti

  "Should You Pay Money to Look at Graffiti? Banksy Doesn’t Think So" by Samantha Oltman, www.motherjones.com. June 17, 2011.

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• The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

  Max Lucado

  Suffering, Attention, May

  Max Lucado (2011). “No Wonder They Call Him the Savior -: Discover Hope in the Unlikeliest Place?Upon the Cross”, p.107, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind of hell within him from which rise everlastingly the impulses which threaten his civilization. He has the faculty of imagining for himself more in the way of pleasure and satisfaction than he can possibly achieve. Everything that he gains he pays for in more than equal coin; compromise and the compounding with defeat constitute his best way of getting through the world. His best qualities are the result of a struggle whose outcome is tragic. Yet he is a creature of love.

  Lionel

  Struggle, Simple, Men

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• There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Truth, Lying

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

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• I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wish, Experience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

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• And learn that the best thing is
  To change my loves while dancing
  And pay but a kiss for a kiss.

  William Butler Yeats

  Kissing, Dancing, Inconstancy

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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• Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

  Mason Cooley

  Pain, Attention, Excuse

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• Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

  Mason Cooley

  Respect, Heart, Feelings

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• The universe will pay you to be yourself and do what you really love.

  Shakti Gawain

  Being Yourself, Authenticity, Universe

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light, 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.178, New World Library

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• Pay attention to the timeless core of your being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Attention, Spirituality, Timeless

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2011

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• Security is something when you don't have any confidence and you want somebody to pay you when you don't do the job.

  Jack McKeon

  Jobs, Want, Security

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• I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.

  Lauryn Hill

  Trying, Debt, Slavery

  "The tax education of Lauryn Hill: Prison" By Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2013.

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• I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Attention, How Precious Life Is

  Mary Oliver (2008). “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays”, p.89, Beacon Press

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• People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Simple, Shopping, Luxury

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.370, Cambridge University Press

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• Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Example, Debt, Littles

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• Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Community, Labor

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.416, Penguin

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• Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Paper, Slavery, Might

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, College, Division Of Labor

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.39, Graphic Arts Books

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• An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Office, Community

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

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• How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it? Is there any enjoyment in it, if his opinion is that he is aggrieved? If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Knowing, Dollars

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.79, Penguin

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• This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Responsibility, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.202, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creativity, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1122, Library of America

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• We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Kings, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.303

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• A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sides, Talent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.333

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• There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.

  Warren E. Burger

  Long, Risk, Speech

  "Open The System, Don't Close It" by Edward H. Crane, www.cnn.com. November 25, 1996.

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