Cost Quotes
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Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
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A smile costs about $240.
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The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.
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That was the thing about secrets-you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill. It is my reasonable service - He paid mine.
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[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either.
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The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.
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I screwed up there, and it probably cost us the game.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.
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I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.
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One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.
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Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.
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Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.
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Choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicles within a class can save drivers at least $1,500 in fuel costs and avoid more than 15 tons of greenhouse gas pollution over the life of the vehicle, as well as help reduce dependence on foreign oil.
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The cost in human lives of every armed conflict is staggering, but the economic cost of wars can continue for generations.
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
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You can't have costs ahead of your unit revenues. What I wake up at night worrying about is that our proposals are not aggressive enough.
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When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover costs. This puts money in business' pockets, and workers also then have more money to spend in the local economy.
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Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
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How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
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Love... love... love, never counting the cost.
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The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives.
