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Costly Quotes (page 13)

Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design. Philip K. Dick
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions."
One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions. Friedrich Nietzsche
How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are? David McCullough
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it. John Henry Newman
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation. Honore de Balzac
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that..."
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it. John Adams
From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully. Robert Schumann
What is most troubling, and sad, about industrial eating is how thoroughly it obscures all these relationships and connections. To go from the chicken (Gallus gallus) to the Chicken McNugget is to leave this world in a journey of forgetting that could hardly be more costly, not only in terms of the animal's pain but in our pleasure, too. But forgetting, or not knowing in the first place, is what the industrial food chain is all about, the principal reason it is so opaque, for if we could see... Michael Pollan
Pete Townshend quote: "The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always..."
The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds. Pete Townshend
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons. Pope John Paul II
Alexander Dumas quote: "it cost me more, but I have nothing to fear."
it cost me more, but I have nothing to fear. Alexander Dumas
Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time. Connie Willis
Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its essence by choosing an alternative that preserves the greatest dignity and some tranquility of mind. Norman Mailer
Colleen McCullough quote: "the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says..."
..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend Colleen McCullough

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