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THIS EDITION: price
Quoted in The Grove:
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you’re willing to pay the price.
~Mary Kay Ash
Everything is for sale if the price is right.
~Lucio Tan
The pain is not about having cheap people around, real pain is the fact that there are some people with a price to start with.
~Sameh Elsayed
EndQuote:
If life is not an adventure it’s a sad venture, and drear at the price. After all life is after all; it is not what you make it, but what it makes you.
~Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander
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Exercise Prompt for 12/19: cycle
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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.
~John Ruskin
Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn’t exist.
~Howard Hughes
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
~Oscar Wilde
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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
~Adlai Stevenson
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Life teaches us that we are never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
~Anatole France
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
~Douglas Coupland
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Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.
Alija Izetbegovic
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
~Francis Bacon
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I’ve got personal views on the ’60s. You can’t have freedom without paying the price for it.
~James Lovelock
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I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.
~Karan Johar
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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
~Branch Rickey
Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
~Charles Kettering
The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.
~Charles Erwin Wilson
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
~Zig Ziglar
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
~Pablo Picasso
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Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that ‘things will come to you,’ it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.
~Orison Swett Marden
There is a price to pay for accomplishment.
~Edwin Louis Cole
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
~Baltasar Gracian
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Nothing good ever happens by itself ‒ it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.
~Antonio Munoz Molina
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
~Orison Swett Marden
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
~William J H Boetcker
Success doesn’t demand a price. Every step forward pays a dividend.
~David Joseph Schwartz
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We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
~Bill Williams
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The problem with faerie gifts is that they always come with a price, which is why they are made by the desperate and the foolish.
~Holly Black
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There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it’s getting.
~Terry McMillan
Ruining someone else’s life for attention or revenge should also come with a price.
~Tomi Lahren
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
~J K Rowling
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
~Margaret Fuller
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
~Judy Collins
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Posted From The Grove
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
~Harry Browne
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Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
~Ron Paul
Taxation is the price which we pay for civilization, for our social, civil and political institutions, for the security of life and property, and without which, we must resort to the law of force… [T]axes are not to be considered a grievance, but as our fair contribution for the common good…
~John N Pomeroy, Waitstill R Ranney, Timothy P Redfield
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
~Albert Bushnell Hart
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The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion ‒ famously drawn on a napkin ‒ that cutting taxes would lead to higher tax revenues.
~Steven Rattner
Tea, coffee, spirits, laces, silks, and spice,
And sundry drugs that bear a noble price,
Are bought for little, but, ere sold, the things
Are deeply charged for duty of the king’s.
~George Crabbe
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
~Albert Camus
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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
~Mark Skousen
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
~Andrew Jackson
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
~J William Fulbright
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
~Robert Casey
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For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
~Lord Byron
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
~Ronald Reagan
I will not agree to go to war in the Donbass. I know there are a lot of hotheads, especially those who hold rallies and say, ‘Let’s go fight and win it all back!’ But at what price? What is the cost? It’s another story of lives and land. And I won’t do it.
~Volodymyr Zelensky
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
~Suzanne Fields
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
~Lech Walesa
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The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
~Douglas Haig
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
~J Reuben Clark
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
~Patrick Henry
Freedom has a price. Most people aren’t willing to pay it.
~Jack Kevorkian
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An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.
~Theodor Mommsen
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.
~Hillary Clinton
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
~John F Kennedy
So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
~Barack Obama
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It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.
~Moshe Dayan (Israel)
Our self-respect does not have a price tag.
~Nawaz Sharif (Pakistan)
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
~William Hague (United Kingdom)
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
~W E B Du Bois (United States)
Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.
~Jose Eduardo dos Santos (Angola)
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What is and isn’t justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law of proportionality. A military attack that results in civilian casualties ‒ ‘collateral damage’ ‒ is acceptable as long as the military benefits outweigh the price that is paid by humanity.
~Sebastian Junger
The price of empire is America’s soul, and that price is too high.
~J William Fulbright
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We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest.
~Chris Christie
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The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.
~Caryl Chessman (serial rapist, gas chamber)
What is the price of justice? When bail is set unreasonably high, people are behind bars only because they are poor. Not because they’re a danger or a flight risk ‒ only because they are poor.
~Loretta Lynch
You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.
~Jeff Sessions
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Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
~Arundhati Roy
The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
~Jon Meacham
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
~Richard Russo
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The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it.
~Donald Rumsfeld
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What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don’t speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don’t get the rhetoric right. I think that’s a fair trade-off.
~Mary Beard (historian)
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
~Thomas Sowell
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Arthur’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense… If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.
~Jimmy Reid
For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.
~Dennis Prager
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My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.
~Bill Dixon
It’s great to make your own choices, but there’s a price to pay. I could’ve made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy.
~Michael Keaton
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
~Rudyard Kipling
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I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.
~Mikhail Gorbachev
And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.
~Lawrence Taylor
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Some of my memories will never return. They are lost ‒ along with the crippling feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Not a tremendous price to pay. (of ECT)
~Carrie Fisher
I have set out to come upon a new me, to open to the things that have long beat with their insistence at my door. I do not wish to surpass anyone or anything. I pray only to outgrow myself in emancipation and consciousness. I stipulate nothing, save that I grow. I know the price and I will pay.
~Muriel Strode
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The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.
~Lawrence Summers
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There isn’t a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with [the] President… People need to get upset with their Congressmen.
~Nicholas Kristof
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
~Meister Eckhart (theologian)
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Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.
~Martin Feldstein
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
~William Vickrey
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I am strongly committed to pursuing the dual goals that Congress has assigned us: maximum employment and price stability.
~Janet Yellen
Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve’s other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
~Ben Bernanke
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Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
~Jonathan Sacks
It is in all our interests that the government, when buying goods or services, pays the lowest price.
~Jacob Rees-Mogg
I always ask the farmers, when you get up in the morning, is there some information which you are lacking which you would like to have? Invariably they talk about weather, the market price.
~M S Swaminathan
Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
~Wendell Berry
Farmers will not see good days unless their produce gets a guaranteed price. Even a notebook, a pen, or a soap has a price printed on it, but the milk that farmers sell do not have any price.
~Nana Patekar
When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.
~Nell Newman
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There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.
~Joseph Hume
All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is, do the farmers of this country, who constitute nearly half of the working population, also not need to eat?
~M S Swaminathan
We all need to know how to cook. I can buy a chicken and have many meals come from it. Is it affordable? Yes. Cheap? No. I want to pay the farmers the right price for food. They deserve it. They are the most important people in the country besides our teachers.
~Alice Waters
There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a life-long respect for the price of butter and eggs.
~William Vaughn
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No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
~Brian Tracy
People really are our most important resource, and people who don’t realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.
~Chesley Sullenberger
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On the Left, there is an emerging nostalgia on for renationalisation as a panacea for all our economic challenges. Every train fare increase, water price rise or electricity rate change triggers a well-orchestrated hue and cry for our essential infrastructure to be taken back into public hands.
~Priti Patel
I don’t believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they’re going to fail.
~T Boone Pickens
Some argue that now isn’t the time to push the green agenda – that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem – high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today’s financial difficulties.
~Lucy Powell
Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don’t often think about social and environmental impact because they’re focused on their financial bottom line.
~Jerry Greenfield
Innovative capitalists have tried to rewrite nature, but to no avail — in the long run, nature always wins.
~Terri Guillemets
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Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It’s the fastest fish. It’s a warm-blooded fish. But it’s got a $100,000 price tag on its head.
~Paul Watson
My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.
~Paul Watson (environmentalist)
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
~E O Wilson
If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
~Ma Jun
Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product’s cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.
~Eliot Spitzer
The key to saving the Amazon and the rest of the world’s great rainforests is actually very simple: just put a fair price on the role they play in providing a quarter of the world’s oxygen, a fifth of fresh water, and 60 percent of its species.
~Johan Eliasch
Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
~Sherwood Boehlert
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
~Tahar Ben Jelloun (Moroccan)
The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.
~Andrew McCarthy
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
~Shirley Chisholm
Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.
~Joyce Meyer
Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He’s just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces ‒ and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security.
~Arthur L Herman
I defend both the freedom of expression and society’s right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
~Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel, Literature, Egyptian)
The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.
~Peter Singer (ethicist)
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~BadfishKoo: Happy Gilmore • The Price is Wrong Bitch (1:25) Bob Barker gets in the last word
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~The Mindset Revolution: Bob Newhart • Stop It (6:18) that’s it?
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Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
~Arthur C Nielsen (media ratings)
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
~John Wooden
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
~James Baldwin
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Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.
~Raymond Loewy
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More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.
~Anthony Weiner
One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn’t change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.
~Lee Scott
I mean, price is price. It’s just where you want to spend your money.
~Rob Walton
Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
~Barbara Ehrenreich
I don’t understand how it’s cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen?
~Jose Andres
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Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
~Alfred P Sloan
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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
~Lee Iacocca
That who sold the expensive for no price, bought the cheap with the highest price.
~Raja Rayshouny
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Apple makes really good products, and Samsung makes really good products. It’s really a two-horse race. Where I think Apple is exposed: the price points of Apple’s products are just so high by comparison with Samsung’s.
~John Sculley
The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.
~Steve Jobs
I think there will be PCs at every price point.
~Bill Gates
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You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
~Narciso Rodriguez
The first stage in a technology’s advance is that it’ll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it’s successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.
~Chris Anderson
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I’m actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that’s not the impression you get with wine.
~Brian Schmidt
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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
~Thomas Sowell
I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let’s get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don’t want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.
~Susan George
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‘Fair’ is, like, this incredibly overused term in negotiations: ‘I just want what’s fair.’ ‘What’s the fair market price?’
~Christopher Voss
Before I started my company in 1998, I worked for big companies traveling a lot and saw firsthand how much waste there was. I was flying across the world in first class to places like Italy or Hong Kong, where I was staying in 5-star hotels, only to nickel and dime someone over a sweater price.
~Maria Cornejo
An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.
~Martin Feldstein
Consumers in both emerging and developed markets want it all ‒ high-performing products, the right price, and a purpose that they can connect with.
~Paul Polman
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Levi’s can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
~Calvin Klein
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In a sense, the market, by expecting a fall in prices, discounts that fall and makes it happen right away instead of later. Expectations speed up future price reactions.
~ Murray Rothbard
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
~Henry Ford
Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they’re greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.
~James Surowiecki
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The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
~Alfred Marshall
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble… to give way to hope, fear and greed.
~Benjamin Graham
I wasn’t a financial pro, and I paid the price.
~Ruth Handler
Basically, what I do is place a stop, generally 10 to 20 percent below the current price, whenever I buy a stock. The exact level depends on my own analysis of a stock’s trading pattern. If a stock violates this stop, I’m out.
~Martin Zweig
What turned me on then, and turns me on even today ‒ and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I’d still be interested in it ‒ is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.
~Sanford I Weill
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Everybody’s doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product.
~Martin Shkreli
You can’t allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don’t consider what you do to have any value at all, and that’s nonsense.
~Robert Smith
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
~author unknown
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
~Harold Wilson
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.
~David Ricardo
We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.
~Martin Feldstein
The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer’s price.
~David Korten
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The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between where the price is right. I have found this to be true to this day whether dealing in paper hats, winter underwear or hotels.
~Conrad Hilton
I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive.
~Sanjay Kumar
Whereas a competitive firm must sell at the market price, a monopoly owns its market, so it can set its own prices. Since it has no competition, it produces at the quantity and price combination that maximizes its profits.
~Peter Thiel
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Every product you have ever loved was a compromise from the ideal vision of its creators to the realities of shipping on time, on budget, and on price point. Anyone who has ever manufactured a physical product that had to be on the shelves for Christmas shopping knows how painful these choices can be.
~Jay Samit
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The percentage you’re paying is too high priced
While you’re living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he’s made on your dreams.
~Steve Winwood
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Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!
~John Buchanan Robinson
I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them ‒ which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.
~Muhammad Yunus
My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can’t give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.
~Kallam Anji Reddy
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Well, I like regulation as little as anybody else. It can be intrusive. It can be detailed. It can be bureaucratic. It can be unevenly administered. It can be unfair. But most regulations that we have for mutual funds and for banks are regulations that we earned. We did something wrong and we’re paying a price for it.
~John C Bogle
For CNBC, and for Wall Street, billion-dollar fines for violations of the law are just part of the price of doing business, along with litigation costs and ‘compliance.’
~Alex Pareene
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
~J Paul Getty
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I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it.
~John O’Toole
Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
~Yves Behar
And that is the whole secret of successful advertising. A good store, selling good goods at right prices, is the foundation… No advertising should be better than the store behind it.
~Walter E Weld
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In 2008, Bitcoin was mysteriously introduced to the world in an obscure, technical paper written under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. By late 2013, the financial press was filled with reportage on Bitcoin and its dramatic price increase.
~Steve Hanke
The bitcoin protocol is about mining bitcoin, not pricing bitcoin. There is nothing in the protocol about establishing a market price for bitcoin; you need a market for that, but what if all the exchange markets are shut down?
~Max Keiser
Whenever the price of cryptocurrency is rallying, people start spending a lot more.
~Erik Voorhees
I’m investing. I’m taking a lot of bitcoin, selling it as the price goes up, and putting it into real estate. Because then if bitcoin goes to zero ‒ which, it’s an experiment, it could ‒ I won’t be on the street.
~Charlie Shrem
I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I’m speculating to increase my purchasing power. But I don’t intend to sell the Bitcoin. I intend to hold it until there’s a day where I can just use Bitcoin completely.
~Olaf Carlson-Wee
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Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply ‒ the lower the price. The higher the demand ‒ the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.
~Ron Wyden
You see this in the oil industry time and time again. Fears that we’ve found the last oil, that we’re going to run out, pop up constantly. And soon afterward, because the price goes up, huge new reservoirs are discovered.
~Porter Stansberry
I stick to stuff I’m pretty sure of and I know this: when the price of a barrel of oil is under $80 a barrel and you build a pipeline, you are driving up greenhouse gases.
~Elizabeth May
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I don’t see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
~Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (Qatar)
We will not allow our country ever to be at the mercy of commodity price volatility or external markets.
~Mohammad bin Salman (Saudi Arabia)
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I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I’m wondering if these prices are legitimate.
~Judd Gregg
The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.
~Alexandra Paul
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Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.
~Jeremy Grantham
If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
~Bill Gates
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Over time, there’s a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the ’70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.
~Steve Forbes
Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
~Barbara Castle
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Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.
~Virgil Goode
As long as the United States ‒ and the world ‒ gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.
~Kathleen Troia McFarland
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let’s use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
~Pete Domenici
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Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
~Vince Lombardi
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In the 2010s, it is not the price of bread that is falsely and unnecessarily inflated by obstinate politicians but that of energy. There are cheap sources of energy either available or possible, but there is a reluctance to use them.
~Jacob Rees-Mogg
We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can’t stand windmills at any price.
~James Lovelock
What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
~Freeman Dyson
As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country’s energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.
~Dan Lipinski
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In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
~Bill Gates
For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price ‒ literally ‒ at the pump and in their heating bills.
~Chris Chocola
I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
~Naomi Klein
Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.
~Sherrod Brown
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It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.
~Norm Coleman
The price of greatness is responsibility.
~Winston Churchill
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
~Elbert Hubbard
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
~Adam Smith
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
~Samuel Smiles
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
~Henry David Thoreau
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
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All those men have their price.
~Robert Walpole
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The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is only limited by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service, and would think it shame to ask for any reward…
~Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa, Santee Sioux)
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.
~Leonardo da Vinci
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§ VIDEO:
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
~Hattie McDaniel
I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.
~Cedric Hardwicke
I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.
~Klaus Kinski
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
~John Ruskin
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
~Bela Lugosi
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Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
~Jim Henson
You’re looking at an actor whose price has just doubled.
~Art Carney
Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don’t even understand that. They think they have to do it… If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work.
~Michael Lewis
I just get the same stuff as I did before, but the price tag is much higher.
~Robbie Coltrane
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Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn’t want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.
~Tyne Daly
People who aren’t complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that’s the price they pay for being originals.
~George Cukor
One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people’s lives without having to pay the price.
~Robert De Niro
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
~Marquis de Sade
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.
~Peter McWilliams
I wish for a world where everyone understands that discomfort is the price of legendary. And fear is just growth coming to get you.
~Robin S Sharma
Sneer as you may, ye unideal lovers of facts and cents, I wouldn’t give up the power and the pleasure of building Castles in the Air — I would not sell you the delight of hope, the enjoyment of anticipation, or the luxury of day-dreaming for the price of a kingdom.
~Thomas Clark Henley
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
~Tom Stoppard
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To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that’s so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.
~Ethan Hawke
I miss a lot of things; that’s the price one pays for stardom. I miss standing in queues, buying tickets, and watching films first day first show. It isn’t the same going to preview theatres or multiplexes and trying to stay incognito.
~Nani (actor, or footballer)
People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone ‒ but that’s a price you pay.
~Samantha Mumba (black Irish singer)
I’m a complete addict of The ‘X Factor,’ so I can see why everyone gets so inspired. But there’s a downside to celebrity: your life is up for grabs, your career is much more disposable, and you are therefore vulnerable. It’s a high price to pay.
~Diana Quick
I’ve been underrated all my life, and that’s fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria ‒ it’s not completely in my hands ‒ you have to hide.
~Rutger Hauer
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As an announcer, The Price Is Right is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.
~Randy West
The Price Is Right can really get me going.
~Sam Peckinpah
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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
~James Baldwin
Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
~Antonin Artaud
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We’ve been remarkably lucky in that we’ve been free to make the movies we’ve wanted to make the way we’ve wanted to make them. They’ve all been made for a price.
~Joel Coen
Still, the film nearly didn’t happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.
~John Schlesinger
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Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
~Bruce Jackson
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
~Alfred Hitchcock
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
~Uwe Boll (slasher movies)
Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
~Uwe Boll
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
~Uwe Boll
We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it’s really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to participate in it, because they put the tickets up at a certain price, then the tickets get marked up by the secondary sellers, and someone else gets twice as much as you.
~Mick Jagger
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People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they come for. Our capacity to do that is the measure of being human. And if the price is that we sometimes say something not very pleasant ‒ well, that’s precisely why people want us, in the end: because we speak the truth.
~Haris Pasovic
My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.
~Samuel Morse (inventor/painter)
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~OF SCAR: Vincent Price (8:12) woven clips of a movie, satisfyingly weird, post-Halloween
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~Philip Martin: The Price (18:57) …and everyone gets to live
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~Omeleto: The Worst (15:47) until, improbably…
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I’m at the depot, and I’m not going anywhere. That’s better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don’t want to fail. They don’t want to pay the price unless there’s a guarantee they’re going to get there.
~Mark Spitz (Olympian)
The price of championships will never change. It’s been set long before me. It will be the same long after me. That price is hard work, sweat, blood, tears, fatigue and exhaustion and doing so much more than what is required of you.
~Tom Herman
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
~Vince Lombardi
Good council has no price.
~Giuseppe Mazzini
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The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.
~Connie Mack (baseball’s winningest/losingest/longest serving manager)
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
~Bill Veeck
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I’ve paid the price over the years, though: a lot of injuries and surgeries related to my sports career; my hips and knees took a lot of wear and tear.
~Johnny Mathis (high jump)
Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
~Jacky Ickx (Belgian race car driver)
But hey, man, if I summited K2 in winter, without oxygen, frost-nipped fingers are a small price to pay. It was worth it. Think about it, things could have been a lot worse.
~Nirmal Purja
The term ‘overachiever’ sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. ‘Overachiever’ is sort of a ‒ it’s sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that’s just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.
~Rick Pitino
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
~Elizabeth Hardwick
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The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
~Frank Serpico
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
~Joan Didion
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
~Ovid
Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.
~Loretta Young
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Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
~Charlie Dent
We can’t change the past but we can learn from history and remember the important things ‒ the sacrifices our loved ones made, and the price of our freedom today.
~Vera Lynn
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
~Rabindranath Tagore
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I’ve got personal views on the ’60s. You can’t have freedom without paying the price for it.
~James Lovelock
Freedom is beyond the price of any earthly cheer…
~Lucy Larcom
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§ MUSIC:
Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There’s the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community – not the community coming to the concert – they say, ‘Wow! I didn’t know that this music was so amazing!’
~Gustavo Dudamel (LA Philharmonic)
The economic picture in the States today doesn’t allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.
~Norman Granz
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
~Stendhal
I’ve never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that ‒ of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
~Taylor Swift
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I live wild and free and reckless, but that’s the price you have to pay for rock.
~Hank Williams III
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I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called ‘The Price.’ I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.
~Bob Seger
I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
~Tre Cool
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The price of fountain drinks in the big cities is already too high, and it is possible there is absolutely no limit to the amount the average customer is willing to pay.
~The Spatula: An Illustrated Magazine for Pharmacists
Sometimes I think our ancestors would laugh through their tears if they could see how we eat. We eat mostly from colorful boxes and cans. We spray our vegetables and fruits with deadly chemicals, then ship them half-way around the world before we eat them. It’s been a grand experiment in the wonders of technology, but what a price we’re paying in our health!
~Kristina Turner
The glow of good health can be yours for the price of hard work, wise choices, and respect for your body.
~Terri Guillemets
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Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.
~David F Houston
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~Jessica Born & Georg Crostewitz: We’re Not In Love Anymore (4:45) bluesy, cozy music, but it’s the golden light settings
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~Bryan Ferry: The Price Of Love (3:12) lots of sultry eyes
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~OldFiat24: Belle and Sebastian • For the Price of a Cup of Tea (3:32) to an old Disney clip
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~Celso Lopes: Alan Parsons Project • May Be A Price To Pay (4:39) a sophisticated lyric and sound, odd/pleasant video?
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~English by Skype: Van Morrison • Let the Slave (5:30) opulent images, anguished lyrics
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~ChicaDeHumoBjovi232: Bon Jovi • The Price of Love (4:21) boys being boys, pre-show and on stage
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~Pete Wright: Too High a Price (3:49) graphic images of death and war, be advised
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~Gabriel Souza: Bruce Springsteen • The Price You Pay (6:11) it’s Bruce, in concert
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~Leonardo Person: Roxette • The Price (3:45) catchy, with color swatches
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~PM Entertainment: Michael Jackson • Price Of Fame (4:25) by one who paid
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~earMUSIC: Deep Purple • Vincent Price (4:48) campy, belated Halloween offering
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~bgs4689cadh: Bee Gees • The Price Of Love (4:53) the price of fame, rather
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~Jessie J: Price Tag w/ B.o.B (4:04) the issue was bling
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
~St Jerome
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
~Agatha Christie
Grief is the price we pay for love.
~Queen Elizabeth II
Love has a cost, and it’s grief. Because we will always be separated from things we love. That’s the nature and price of life, right? But, when you love something deeply, then you’re courageous.
~Gail Bradbrook
Being crazy of someone might seem cheap, but what if your life is priceless without that person.
~M F Moonzajer
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Jealousy is unavoidable ‒ it’s part of the price we pay for intimacy.
~Rachel Simmons
We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There’s a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn’t a casual thing. It’s a huge thing.
~William H Macy
I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
~Saul Bellow
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
~Jean Baudrillard
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Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I’d pay.
~Esther Williams
Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one ‒ but there is a price.
~Harry Browne
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When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That’s the price she has to pay.
~George S Kaufman
A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor ‒her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn’t quite say.
~Andrew Hudgins
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Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
~Louis Leakey
If you’re a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
~Mignon McLaughlin
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…and in the center, facing us, stood a magnificent blonde… my skin turned to goose flesh, my knees knocked. Yet I… looked in spite of myself. Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
~Ralph Ellison
Cheap is the love that has a price.
~Ljupka Cvetanova
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
~Stendhal
Love is the expression of one’s values… the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
~Ayn Rand
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What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
~John Millington Synge
My father told me ‘Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.’
~Dave Chappelle
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
~William Blake
I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn’t want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don’t answer.
~Arsenio Hall
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments — and you get the tears at the end, too.
~Harlan Coben
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Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman’s counsel.
~George Chapman
What made women’s labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
~Clara Zetkin
Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.
~J B Pritzker
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I’d done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn’t read it.
~Buchi Emecheta
Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs.
~Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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Motherhood is priced Of God,
at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson
With what a price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
~Isadora Duncan
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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
~Angela Carter
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
~Lucy Stone
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‘Sexy’ doesn’t have to come with the price tag of being dumb.
~Pink
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Women’s Rights, Speculative Fiction from 1889
The Year 2000 — United Britain. There have been many changes and much progress in the well-being of humankind during the past hundred years. The strongest point of the century passed has been the striking advancement of the intellectual power of woman. The barriers which man in his own interest set to the occupation of woman having once been broken down, the progress of woman in all pursuits has been continuous. It has come to be accepted that the bodily power is greater in man, and the mental power larger in woman. The arts and caprices which in old days were called feminine proved to be the silken chains fastened by men on women to lull them into inaction. Without abating any of their charms, women have long ceased to submit to be the playthings of men.
~Julius Vogel (former PM of NZ)
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One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money – putting a price on your childhood – is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can’t put a price on them.
~Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter series)
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
~Edwin Booth
Understand: as children and young adults, we are taught to conform to certain codes of behavior and ways of doing things. We learn that being different comes with a social price.
~Robert Greene
Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren’t things to think about any more. All that matters is value ‒ the ultimate value of what one does.
~James Hilton
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CONSUMER From con, meaning to dupe, and Latin summa, highest. The Dupe who pays the highest price.
~Charles Wayland Towne
Sale Price — What something costs when it is priced only slightly above what it is worth; also what something is priced at the day after we bought it at a higher price.
~Richard E Turner
A smile is a facelift that’s in everyone’s price range!
~Tom Wilson
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The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.
~Douglas Adams
The biggest problem facing motorists today is whiplash. You get it from watching the price of gas go up.
~Robert Orben
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
~Robert Orben
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!
~Mignon McLaughlin
With the price of life these days, you’ve got to get everything for free you can.
~Carl Rogers
I bought my wife a beautiful diamond ring and I even had it engraved ‒ with the price.
~Michael McIntyre
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
~Mignon McLaughlin
If a dog jumps up into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. ~Alfred North Whitehead
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I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.
~Lynsey Addario (photojournalist)
There are many causes of violent deaths in America ‒ murders and traffic accidents ‒ that we do not approach with the same ‘no price too steep, no task too difficult’ approach that we take toward al Qaeda.
~Dennis C Blair
We never bury the dead, son. We take them with us. It’s the price of living.
~Mark Goffman and Jose Molina
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one’s lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
~Gilbert Parker
If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America’s health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.
~Jamie Oliver
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This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people’s prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.
~Paul Ryan
Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America’s broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.
~Ron Wyden
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There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
~Harry Stack Sullivan
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Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.
~Judy Biggert
The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.
~Mary Landrieu
From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.
~John Shadegg
Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets ‒ government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives?
~Jim Cooper
The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market – more choices, lower prices, higher quality – and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.
~John Shadegg
The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price ‒ not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.
~Mike Simpson
Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price.
~Jonathan Potter
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Dark Hollow Oak
© David Lorenz Winston
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
~William James
The results of quality work last longer than the shock of high prices.
~author unknown
A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
~Charlie Munger
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
~Desmond Tutu
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
~Wendell Phillips
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
~George Orwell
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The bottom line is if you want to own a football club you have to pay the price to have success.
~Simon Jordan
Everything in life has a price on it ‒ there ain’t a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
~Earl Campbell
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
~Orison Swett Marden
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Everybody says, ‘I want to change,’ but they’re not willing to pay the price of it. …and if you want that ride to be exhilarating and amazing, you’ve got to pay to get in. And the price is a willingness to change above and beyond what most people will do.
~Brendon Burchard
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
~Juvenal
The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.
~Mahira Khan (actress)
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True freedom is where an individual’s thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor ‒ no matter the personal price.
~Bryant H McGill
Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member’s freedom of thought and action.
~Robert Shea
Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.
~Robert Kennedy
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When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.
~Mr T
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
~Patrick Henry
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
~Martin Luther King, Jr
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If the price is very cheap then it’s almost certainly a fake.
~David Russell
I don’t design down to a price.
~James Dyson
You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you’ve got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.
~Yayoi Kusama
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I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it’s much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.
~Betsey Johnson
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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there’s a single numeric average. But if it’s a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that’s crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
~Jaron Lanier
I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they’re being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don’t have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn’t do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.
~Charlie Munger
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas Sowell
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Once, long ago, I heard an old man say,
“Two pounds of sorrow is the price you pay
For every pound of bliss.”
But I was young and such a reckoning
Seemed far too steep; now, in a later spring,
I’d gladly offer far, far more than this.
~Alice Mackenzie Swaim
My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay.
~Sue Townsend
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
~Mignon McLaughlin
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@Writers Platform
Precious and priceless are the blessings which books scatter around our daily paths. We walk, in imagination, with the noblest spirits… Without stirring from our firesides, we may roam to the most remote regions of the earth…
~Edwin P Whipple
Every man should have a library. The works of the grandest masters of literature may now be procured at prices that place them within the reach almost of the very poorest, and we may all put Parnassian singing birds into our chambers to cheer us with the sweetness of their songs.
~William E A Axon
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
~John Ruskin
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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.
~Alberto Mangue
I’m in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
~Walter Jon Williams
The teachings of elegant sayings
Should be collected when one can.
For the supreme gift of words of wisdom,
Any price will be paid.
~Nāgārjuna
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The mercenaries and parasites of the Press, who prostitute its more than royal power, and dishonor a noble profession, will find it easy to mock at things too wonderful for them to understand; for to them the price of a paragraph is more than the value of sincerity.
~H P Blavatsky
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
~Ellis Peters
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I don’t know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I’ve gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
~Jerry Saltz
Money messes up everything. It ruins art. The second you start putting price tags on this stuff, it’s… Art isn’t for just the wealthy. It’s for everybody to enjoy.
~John Gourley
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
~Jerry Saltz
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We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
~Judy Garland
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
~Max Eastman
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Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I’ve never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look. (explores race, gender, sensuality, violence)
~Jerry Saltz
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
~Alexander Pope
While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It’s not a movement – movements are more sure of themselves. It’s a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
~Jerry Saltz
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People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.
~Yayoi Kusama
These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I’m a flesh-eating virus.
~Jerry Saltz
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Prewritten Prompt: price
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‘T is heaven alone that is given away,
‘T is only God may be had for the asking;
There is no price set on the lavish summer,
And June may be had by the poorest comer.
~James Russell Lowell
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
~Harriet Ann Jacobs
For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
~Bill McCartney
Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that’s really worth following in this world or the one that’s coming.
~Brennan Manning
Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership ‒ it’s an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.
~Richard Foster
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
~Adam Clarke
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
~Mahatma Gandhi
A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which ‒ if she wasn’t smart enough to camouflage herself ‒ she generally paid the price.
~Stacy Schiff
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
~Abraham Kuyper
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
~Mahatma Gandhi
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The price of peace is righteousness.
~Ezra Taft Benson
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
~Amelia Earhart
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We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.
~Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front)
We want peace, but not at any price.
~Ehud Barak (Israel)
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
~Mahatma Gandhi
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
~Elia Kazan
We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.
~Tom Steyer
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In Israel, there is a peace camp that can convene 200,000 people in central square of this city, on very short notice, and there is a major movement among academics, politicians, thinkers, and public leaders for peace, even at a painful price. On the Palestinian side, you can find them individually here and there, but there is no public movement.
~Ehud Barak
You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
~Fred Hampton
Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.
~Mark Foley
The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning — and ready to pay its full price…
~Dwight D Eisenhower
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Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood — the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
~Theodore Roosevelt
There is no short cut. For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
~John Burroughs
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We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.
~James F Byrnes (Sec, State)
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
~Orison Swett Marden
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Poor Charlotte Guise, superstitious by nature and education, was seized with a perfect acme of terror…
~Ellen Price Wood
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‘studies’ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‘studies’ are about propaganda rather than serious education.
~Thomas Sowell
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
~Tom Stoppard
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What are called ‘public schools’ in many of America’s wealthy communities aren’t really ‘public’ at all. In effect, they’re private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.
~Robert Reich
When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
~Arthur Ashe
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We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
~Sandra Day O’Connor
We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.
~Robert Kennedy
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College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.
~Dianne Feinstein
We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.
~Evan Bayh
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For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that’s just the price of being first sometimes.
~Hugh Grant
Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn’t be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.
~Gary Kovacs
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
~Michael Shermer
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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
~Bill Keller
Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.
~Steven Berkoff
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My interest in space started early, but for many years, I could not find any space-related investments that really penciled-out for venture. That changed in 2009 when Elon Musk came to us with a big vision to explore Mars while producing rockets at a fraction of a price and making space accessible.
~Steve Jurvetson
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
~Barney Oliver
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§The Exercise:
loco•motives
if the prize of arriving
is worth more than
the price leaving
then ’tis love
’twere it otherwise
the price at arriving
i’m believing
’tis a prison
you’ll be leaving
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geezer dream
museum quality
no bid too high
priceless art
to bait the eye
safely in storage
‘gainst those who’d try
uncanny fortune
lucky hayride
meeting by chance
now fortunate bride
but forced to choose
woman and wife
or stored security
retirement set-aside
unhappy choice
treasures beyond price
but plucky old geezer
still willing to fight
restored by their beauty
kept both as his prize
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he)lection
strident leaders
fawning followers
antique antics
curbside brawlers
clowning pleaders
hijinks lawyers
price of just-us
bottom dollars
adjusted judges
frowning scholars
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she)lection
wide-eyed scan
to read a man
saber wit
might hurt a bit
maternal instincts
avoid the brink
nato’s knowledge
world-class college
nation’s good held interior
no hand-held full-length mirrors
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aphrodite
maven of lovin’
holdin’ ‘n huggin’
refusin’ of nothin’
desire as divine
upright and reclined
behind or declined
unfettered freedom
when price became boredom
satiated and numb
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old religion
scars have stories
some are scary
sacred relics
bleak allegories
holiday wary
glamoured with glory
yet blood was shed
will be again
‘ere the ending’s
pre-paid price
earns its interest
fate of sacrifice
third time charm
foreshadowed twice
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5s ‘n 7s
masculine price for handsome
different brand of beauty
muscle-bound as pulchritude
another kind of cute-he
vanity veiled as duty
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Fiery new hired Hope
Second storey rope
She wouldn’t elope
Bid goodbye to love
All pleasure removed
Frees up liberties
High price of release
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knuckling under
submission to aggression
is the ask too much
old identities don’t fit
worth the price, cost of new clothes
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raw goods locked in land
survival spidering out
future up for grabs
webs of intrigue worth a war
empire’s price when costed out
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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes
Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
~Isabelle Holland
For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It’s distressing, but there you are.
~Leslie Charteris
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Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.
~Akhenaton
Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.
~Gary Vaynerchuk
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The little white goatee that stuck out from the side of his chin was as crooked as his temper.
~Margaret Sutton Briscoe
Your hair carries a lot of energy and memories…
~Lindsay Price Stone
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You ought to have fully and clearly in your own mind a good reason for everything you do, for everything you learn, for everything you eat, for everything you drink.
~Alice Price
Plans without price tags are simply pandering.
~Ayanna Pressley
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It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
~Ben
I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It’s always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
~Alice Hoffman
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Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
~James Q Wilson
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
~Kenneth L Pike
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I don’t know whether it’s age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
~John le Carre
People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
~Saul Alinsky
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I also came to see that the price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
~Eldridge Cleaver
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
~Warren Buffett
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The Olio
Quotes harvested from: https://bqotd.com, https://dailypnut.com, https://www.quotegarden.com, https://wisesayings.com
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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com
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The Salmagundi
Video Harvest: https://veno.com, https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com
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