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• There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

  A. E. Hotchner

  Matter, Said, Damn

  A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.141, Da Capo Press

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• I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

  Christine Lavin

  Army, Knives, Giving

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• The third-date rule [that you need to have sex by the third date] treats sex like it's the down payment on a relationship.

  Jason 'J' Brown

  Sex, Women, Needs

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• The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Self, Hands

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

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• The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in job ratios. It's ludicrous. Are we in the modern world, or what?

  Daryl Hannah

  Jobs, Doe, World

  "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.

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• I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments.

  Orson Scott Card

  World, Folks, Wells

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Seventh Son: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.237, Macmillan

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• Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that’s insufficient in your life.

  Greg Plitt

  Pain, Sacrifice, Messages

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• May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and gives but bad receipts for payment in the lower world. Ah, passers-by that stroll, travelers that come and go, all that I had, I placed on virtue, and lost the game!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Games, Giving, Gold

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• I had this lump in my throat, but I couldn't even cry. I thought, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. I was just sitting there in my car that I was two months behind on payments for, knowing I didn't have money for rent.

  Katy Perry

  Two, Knowing, Car

  Interview in Cosmopolitan magazine, August 2009.

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• Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure.

  David Jeremiah

  Home, Titles, Deeds

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• Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?

  Horace Mann

  Education, School, Character

  Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.113

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• But spirituality, it seems to me, when answering the question, "Why should I be good? Why should I care for others?" says, "Because that is the best, most fulfilling way to live" Whether or not you receive an award or a payment is incidental. You are good and kind and loving because it is right, even though it is difficult sometimes. It fulfills the highest law, to treat others as we wish to be treated.

  Philip Gulley

  Awards, Law, Wish

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• It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a demand for more danegeld. But they can be curbed. Their very belief in force makes them more susceptible to the deterrent effect of a formidable opposing force.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Demand, Belief

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• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  Yannick Noah

  Unbearable, Taxes, Take Me

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• A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.

  Robert Breault

  Successful, Artist, Inspired

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• The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Balance, Usual, United States

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• Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on the Colorado River,' they said. 'I'm touring college towns with my garage band.' We were dumbfounded. It was like they were from another planet. Where had they found the derring-do? What would they do about car payments? We got together for going away drinks on their final day and tried to hide our envy while reminding ourselves that we still had the freedom and luxury to shop indiscriminately.

  Joshua Ferris

  Believe, College, Colorado River

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• Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No. Well. In a sense. You see it's inevitable, or refuse to. You greet it or don't -- take it in trade, maybe, for all you're going to lose anyway. Or you can refuse, and have what you've got to lose snatched from you, and never take payment -- never see a trade is possible.

  John Crowley

  Growing Up, Clouds, Said

  John Crowley (2015). “Little, Big”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Fire, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.397, Hamilton Books

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• You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not give me no longer. I'm still what I was, and you'll always see it, and you'll always grant me the same response, even if there's a greater one that you grant another man. No matter what you feel for him, it will not change what you feel for me, and it won't treason to either, because it comes from the same root, it's the same payment in answer to the same values.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Expression, Roots

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• Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Country, Balance, Movement

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• It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system.

  David Robertson

  Eggs, San Francisco, Effort

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• So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Balance, Currency, Deficit

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• I believe that what works for the consumer is to be able to determine what they can pay -- even if it is nothing. (Just joking.) Unfortunately, so many depend on credit for living expenses, and the lower payments helped them in the immediate term. I am OK with that. For those who want their minimum to be more, you don't have to wait on your credit issuer to increase the payment -- do it on your own. For others, at this time, I think it's a horrible idea.

  Trina

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Happiness, Simple, Rights

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