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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. -- Thomas Sowell
We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students. -- Debbie Stabenow
As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change. -- Wayne Swan
Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters. -- Veerappa Moily
This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs. -- Jodi Rell
We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index. -- Charles Vest
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
When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices. -- John Catsimatidis
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
We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God. -- Ellen G. White
Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost. -- Edward Felten
My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've probably had to go through and raise every menu price now by 50 cents because it took away my profit. I just underestimated what it was going to cost. -- Tom Douglas
Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
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
I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment. -- Brian Mulroney
You know, if we're going to bring down the price of gas, you have to have three things. You have to have a big reserve, you have to have the ability to develop oil out of that reserve quickly, and you have to be able to produce oil at a relatively low cost. -- Chris Cannon
Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else is giving us accurate information: our beleaguered air and watersheds, our overworked soils, our decimated inner cities. All of these provide information our prices should be giving us but do not. -- Paul Hawken
The energy transition demands a clear vision of the steps that need to be taken and a stable, meaningful regulatory framework. It appears important to us to awaken public opinion to the fact that this transition will necessarily come at a cost and will, at least in the short term, involve a price increase. -- Christophe de Margerie
What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity. -- James Surowiecki
If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to get back to the price system where you see the full cost of health care, and then people will make smarter decisions. That will reduce health care costs, and it's a huge part of our economy. -- Dave Brat
The cost of forgiveness is less than the price of bitterness -- Systenious Makhubele
The price of light is less than the cost of darkness. -- Arthur Nielsen
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. -- William Arthur Ward
A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost. -- Carl Sandburg
Everything comes with a price. Everything. Some things just cost more than others. -- Brom
Count the cost first. Don't pay too big a price for pursuing minor values. -- Jim Rohn
Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher. -- Ronald Reagan
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. -- Meister Eckhart
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Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. -- Walter Cronkite
Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us. -- Arthur Nielsen
Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us. -- Arthur Nielsen
For the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free -- John G. Lake
The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure. -- Tsem Tulku
Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product. -- Eliot Spitzer
What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire. -- David Hewson
If you fear to know the cost, the value will definitely be lost. Focus your attentions on the product, not the price. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Play, intrinsically rewarding, doesn't cost anything; as soon as you put a price on it, it becomes, to some extent, not play. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
The cost for the recipient of Godâ??s grace is nothing, and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay. -- Dan B. Allender
If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions. -- Barack Obama
The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness. -- Alice Hegan Rice
I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction. -- Tony Blair
As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change." -- Wayne Swan
Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls. -- Elizabeth Prentiss
Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly. -- Dan Butler
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness -- Erich Fromm
People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high. -- Marion D. Hanks
We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it. -- H. L. Mencken
In the past, I have bargained myself away, believing that price was more important than cost, quality, reliability, or reputation. In the past, I was clearly wrong. -- Chris Murray
Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free. -- Aaron Tippin
The cost of motoring is a massive issue at the moment, there's no question. The price of petrol goes up every time you go to the petrol station. -- Lucy Powell
It's just economics 101: When it's free to pollute, you get more pollution. But when there's a price to pay, industry will have an incentive to find low-cost carbon solutions. -- Fred Krupp
The 2012 Olympics is going to cost Â£8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling. -- Jimmy Carr

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