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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Decent, Workers, Living Wage

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• Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

  Alice Rivlin

  Groups, Attention, Politician

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• People ask, 'Is the science going to run ahead of the ethics?' I don't think that's always the problem. I think it's that the science runs ahead of the politics. Bioethics can alert people to something coming down the road, but it doesn't mean policy and politicians are going to pay attention. They tend to respond when there's an immediate crisis. The job of the ethicist, in some ways, is to warn or be prophetic. You can yell loudly, but you can't necessarily get everybody to leave the cinema, so to speak.

  Arthur Caplan

  Running, Jobs, Mean

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• If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Art, Fall, Men

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• I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Player, Balls, Actors

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• Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

  Seneca the Younger

  Asking, Debt, Creditors

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• The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

  Erich Fromm

  Giving Up, Loss, Self

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Greatness, Mind, Made

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• Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Virtue, Reason, Lows

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• If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Music, Play, Light

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• Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Talking, Long, People

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.101, Oxford Paperbacks

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• We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Gratitude, Grateful, Watches

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• Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Judging, Perfection

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• Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Success, Two, Debt

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• There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

  Josh Billings

  Revenge, Passion, Heart

  Josh Billings (1913). “Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised”

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