Quotes with afford

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  • Benjamin Booker The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Mark Twain There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Goldacre There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Mother Teresa There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bruce Cockburn These fragile bodies of touch and taste
    This vibrant skin, this hair like lace
    Spirits open to the thrust of grace
    Never a breath you can afford to waste, when you're
    Lovers in a dangerous time
    Lovers in a dangerous time...
    Stealing Fire (1984)
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Adam Smith They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
    The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • John F. Kennedy This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Henry David Thoreau True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bobby Scott Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Very few people can afford to be poor.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lewis Lehr We can afford almost any mistake once.
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  • Carolyn Maloney We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Carl Lewis We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Germaine Greer We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arthur Ashe When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
    Arthur Ashe
    Robert Ashe Jr (1943 - 1993)
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  • Ban Ki-moon When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Beth Ditto When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Barbara Demick When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Bob Latta When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest.
    Bob Latta
    American politician (1956 - )
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