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The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart. -- W. C. Fields
The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. -- Flip Wilson
My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure. -- Tony Abbott
It's weird to be recognised anywhere. The cost of living your dream, acting, is being recognised. -- Colin Morgan
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages. -- David Korten
An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job. -- Newt Gingrich
Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator. -- Leonard Woodcock
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities. -- Leonard Woodcock
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully. -- Zoe Akins
we are slaves to the cost of living. -- Carolina Maria de Jesus
The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity. -- Mark Twain
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. -- Kathleen Norris
The cost of living keeps going up, although death is surprisingly affordable. -- Stephen Colbert
Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living. -- Michael Hudson
We've confused the cost of lifestyle with the cost of living. We've lost our perspective. -- Tim Costello
The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty. -- Elvis Costello
My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure -- Tony Abbott
the high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it -- Don Marquis
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high. -- Doug Larson
The high cost of living is a minor problem when compared to the cost of high living. -- Mardy Grothe
A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living. -- Bob Phillips
How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart? -- W. C. Fields
A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living. -- Brendan Behan
The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe. -- Edward Abbey
Focus on all four of your net worth factors: increasing your income, increasing your savings, increasing your investment returns, and decreasing your cost of living by simplifying your lifestyle. -- T. Harv Eker
I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes. -- Elizabeth Warren
We have a calling: a need to be close to Nature, where she may cleanse our souls and wash away the stresses of yesterday. It is emotional recompense for the cost of living. -- Fennel Hudson
Hence, the statement that the cost of living is different in different localities only means that the same individual cannot secure the same degree of satisfaction from the same stock of goods in different places. -- Ludwig von Mises
And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress. -- Leonard Woodcock
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. -- James Cameron
Whatever the trend in exchange rates or whatever the external factors, a manufacturing company is always faced with the mission of transforming itself into a company that can produce higher value-added to absorb the increase in the cost of living in the country it's operating in. -- Fujio Mitarai
Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. -- E. O. Wilson
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also. -- Charles E. Wilson
Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries. -- Pola Negri
The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment. -- Evo Morales
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive. -- Sidney Hook
One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century. -- Douglas Alexander
No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments. -- Charles E. Wilson
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. -- Morris West
Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world. -- Bernie Sanders
Flappy Bird' was one of those phenomena. If we could all build one now, we would. Probably a bunch of us are trying. Those kinds of games are interesting. Rumor has it he was making $50,000 a day just from advertising, which is great, especially given the cost of living in Vietnam. -- Chris DeWolfe
I am pretty sure central banks will continue to print money, and the standards of living for people in the western world, not just in America, will continue to decline because the cost of living increases will exceed income. The cost of living will also go up because all kinds of taxes will increase. -- Marc Faber
The high cost of low living. -- Ezra Taft Benson
There is a high cost for low living. -- Edwin Louis Cole
If not for the cost burdens of fear we would all be living in paradise -- Richard Gerber
I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost. -- Kin Hubbard
Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was. -- Linda Ronstadt
I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more. -- Alice Waters
We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. -- Aldo Leopold
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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