Quotes with cost-benefit

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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Brent Scowcroft But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Bob Beauprez Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Ayn Rand Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
    Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • John Ruskin Everything costs its own cost, and one of our best virtues is a just desire to pay it.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • George Santayana Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Patrick Henry For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Bob Beauprez For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Bob Keeshan Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Bertrand Russell Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Tertullian He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
    Tertullian
    Roman Christian author from Carthage (160 - 230)
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  • Bill Hybels He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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