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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. -- Blaise Pascal
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. -- John F. Kennedy
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. -- Nelson Mandela
Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity. -- Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress. -- J. G. Holland
Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege. -- William J. Clinton
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended. -- Colley Cibber
'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.' -- Matthew Scully
Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that -- Daniel Dennett
Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children. -- Susan George
Cost is more important than quality but quality is the best way to reduce cost. -- Genichi Taguchi
Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour. -- Charles E. Wilson
Cost does not equal value... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time. -- Tom Peters
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. -- Marie Curie
It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness. -- J. C. Ryle
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. -- Denis Waitley
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids! -- Jim Rohn
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. -- Arthur Ashe
It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education. -- Elizabeth Warren
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. -- C. S. Lewis
However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation. -- Tim Bishop
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. -- Mark Twain
The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics. -- Donald Trump
I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling. -- Stephen King
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer. -- Stephen King
The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves. -- Ronald Reagan
Good words are worth much, and cost little. -- George Herbert
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. -- Thomas Fuller
As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war. -- Tulsi Gabbard
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. -- Chris Van Hollen
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment. -- Bono
I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. -- Al Gore
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. -- Brad Schneider
My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. -- Steve Jobs
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul. -- Heraclitus
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. -- John Adams
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism. -- Richard Dawkins
Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders. -- Chris Rock
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit. -- Josiah Stamp
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq. -- Jared Diamond
Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports. -- Simon Mainwaring
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. -- Winston Churchill
Environmentalists should like fracking for its relative cleanliness. But they don't. They have made a bugaboo out of the chemicals in fracking fluids, which supposedly can leach into groundwater sources. I'm convinced they're dead wrong. Ultimately, good technology with a cost advantage will win out over paranoia. -- Kenneth Fisher
And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. -- Mitt Romney
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity. -- James Buchan
Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution. -- Chris Christie
We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not. I think at some point, we may decide that we don't have to have that size military and cost footprint in the country. You look at what you want to accomplish, how many soldiers you need. -- Grover Norquist
It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will. -- Joyce Meyer
Civility cost nothing. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Fair words cost nothing. -- John Gay
Some mistakes cost everything. -- Jean Haus
Postmodernism cost literature its audience. -- Scott Turow
Knowledge without action cost money -- David Bach
The greatest cost, namely time. -- Antiphon
Opinions, from experts, cost money. -- Rex Stout
There's an opportunity cost to everything. -- Julie B. Beck
The cost of independence has dropped. -- Jeff Jarvis
Imagination brings bliss at no cost -- Shing02
The cost of leadership is self-interest. -- Simon Sinek
The high cost of low living. -- Ezra Taft Benson
It don't cost money to ask. -- John Steinbeck
Grab a brew... don't cost nothin' -- John Belushi
Kind words cost little, but accomplish much. -- Hal Urban
True feeling justifies whatever it may cost. -- May Sarton
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully. -- Zoe Akins
Love... love... love, never counting the cost. -- Catherine Doherty
Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing. -- Josh Billings
The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance -- Thomas Jefferson
Marketing is an investment, not a cost. -- Martin Sorrell
That which is priceless has no cost. -- Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Friends don't count the cost of favors. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Good design doesn't cost, but it pays. -- Richard Driehaus
Private jets cost a lot of money. -- Donald Trump
Don't think of cost. Think of value. -- John Spence
The tongue talkes at the heads cost. -- George Herbert
It doesn't cost a thing to smile, -- India.Arie
what you don't know will cost you. -- Dee Dee Artner
Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America. -- Edmund Burke
Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra. -- Millard Drexler
The cost of anything is the foregone alternative. -- Walter Johnson
The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity. -- Mark Twain
Little journeys and good cost bring safe home. -- George Herbert
Leaders who lack passion cost everyone who follows. -- Bill Johnson
Creation cost Him nothing; salvation cost Him everything. -- Reinhard Bonnke
There is a high cost for low living. -- Edwin Louis Cole
Nothing important happens in life without a cost. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was. -- Graves B. Erskine
Design adds value faster than it adds cost. -- Joel Spolsky
Despair is easy, or at least low cost. -- Rebecca Solnit
we are slaves to the cost of living. -- Carolina Maria de Jesus
The modern dogma is comfort at any cost. -- Aldo Leopold
Growth isn't free it always has a cost... -- Morgan Brown
It doesn't cost anything more to be nice. -- Angelo Dundee
to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing. -- Alfred de Musset
Mistakes only cost you when you don't acknowledge them. -- Russell Simmons
Books should cost less and they should be digital. -- Walt Mossberg
Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something. -- Laura Schlessinger
Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure. -- Joichi Ito
Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points. -- Boris Becker
Some things are worth the cost of their consequences. -- Jeaniene Frost
Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays. -- Louis C. K.
I've seen firsthand the high human cost of war. -- Tulsi Gabbard
The kinds of things I want don't cost money. -- Carol Rifka Brunt
I can make more generals, but horses cost money. -- Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes, leaders' failures can cost these young people's lives. -- King Hussein
The progress in Iraq has not been without cost. -- Virgil Goode
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. -- James Anthony Froude
How much is your sin going to cost me? -- Ted Haggard
International alliances reduce the cost of developing cars significantly. -- Sergio Marchionne
There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod. -- Steve Jobs
It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people -- Don Meyer
You can win, it'll just cost you some money. -- Bobby Heenan
who wishes to fight must first count the cost -- Sun Tzu
When the effort fails, is it worth the cost? -- Maria V. Snyder
Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost. -- Peter Drucker
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke. -- George Herbert

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