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• After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.

  Roger Zelazny

  Writing, Years, Agents

  "Phlogiston Forty Four: An Interview with Roger Zelazny". Interview by Alex Heatley, Phlogiston Forty Four, 1995.

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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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• I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them.

  Charles Clarke

  Mind, Purpose, Reason

  "Clarke Dismisses Medieval Historians". Speech at University College, Worcester, www.theguardian.com. May 09, 2003.

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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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• The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.

  Irving Chernev

  Compliment, Masters, Capablanca

  "The Chess Companion". Book by Irving Chernev, 1970.

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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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• While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right for each other. We keep telling them that they cannot pay couples to stay together, and it is clear that it will take more than a three-quid-a-week tax break to keep this marriage together.

  Harriet Harman

  Couple, Garden, Law

  House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. May 25, 2010.

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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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• The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Home, Past, Compliments You

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• China will certainly pay more attention to human rights.

  Liu Jingmin

  Rights, Attention, China

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• The characters are great, and this is the first adventure of the brothers Grimm, so there's plenty of potential to make a franchise. We've been quite successful in the past, so anything like that, if it does pay off with hopefully the good movie that I think it will be, it pays off also down the road.

  Bob Weinstein

  Brother, Adventure, Character

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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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• Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

  Jim Rowe

  Artist, What Matters, Painting

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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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• Sketching on a regular basis requires you to pay close attention to the visual world around you. With practice, you begin to see things you never noticed before.

  Paul Laseau

  Practice, Sketching, Attention

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• I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes of famous people. Nor do I have any interest in the really gross, dark stuff that some people pay top-dollar, like post-mortem photos of babies (yuck) or press photos of old murder scenes or whatever. I collect in these little niches most other people don't care about -- dark-and-weird-but-fun -- and photos that have been written on, which a lot of sellers think hurts their value. All of which is good news for me!

  Ransom Riggs

  Baby, Hurt, Fun

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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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• I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation.

  Eileen Claussen

  Jobs, Mean, Fate

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