Quotes with afford

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  • Arthur J. Goldberg Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
    Arthur J. Goldberg
    American jurist and politician
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  • Samuel Johnson Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anthony Trollope Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • William Cowper Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Maggie Kuhn Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • Andrew S. Hasselbring Never remember what you can afford to forget.
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  • Archibald Alexander None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Lois Horowitz Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look for that information leaves you powerless. In a society where information is king, none of us can afford that.
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  • Germaine Greer Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Brody Jenner Once I'm satisfied and I've made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it's very expensive, I will definitely be back there.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Adam Schiff Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bob Filner The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Samuel Johnson The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Graham The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.
    Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. III, The Problem of Conserving Surplus
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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