Quotes with cost-benefit

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  • Bjorn Lomborg The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Ben Affleck The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Byron Howard The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • George Orwell The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Buddha The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • George Orwell The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Goldacre The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Carl Sandburg There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Burt Rutan To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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