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“I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.”

People Ifs May Long Running Certain Business Class Amount Higher Cost Approach Add Believer Long Runs Cheap Things

Book:Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President

Source: Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President

“A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living.”

Sometimes Cost Add Credit Cards Credit Card Cost Of Living

Book:Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations

Source: Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations

“Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.”

Integrity Cost Eternal Intellectual Bases Add Vigilance Eternal Vigilance Price Of Freedom

Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.”

People Way Self Feelings Found Wish Millions Cost Ordinary Add Environmental Relative Righteous Ordinary People Handful Self Righteous Staggering

Author:Thomas Sowell

“To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a man, is not thought of, but to add a few yards of land to your field, to plant an orchard, or enlarge a dwelling, to always be making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants without effort and almost without cost. These are small objects, but the soul clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till they at last shut out the rest of the world and sometimes intervene between itself and heaven.”

“People, materials, facilities, money, and time are the resources available to us for conducting our business. By applying our skills, we turn these resources into useful products and services. If we do a good job, customers pay us more for our products than the sum of our costs in producing and distributing them. This difference, our profit, represents the value we add to the resources we utilize.”

People Ifs Jobs Values Turns Differences Pay Materials Products Cost Skills Resources Add Profit Available Customers Good Job Facility Conducting

Author:David Packard

“Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.”

Design Development Cost Pages Training Add Features Testing Manuals Reliability Documentation Specifications

Author:Douglas Crockford

“Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.”

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“The current fast food that we have is inexpensive when you buy it, but the long-term costs of eating it and the long-term costs to society, are much too high. This cheap food, when you add up all the total costs, is much too expensive.”

Long Term Cost Eating Add Currents Long Term Expensive Fast Food Inexpensive Cheap Food

Author:Eric Schlosser

“If Apple is enslaving Chinese to make its iPhones, you don't need to eat the i-Phone, you need to make sure that Apple is paying a living wage to someone, and then it adds a dollar to the cost of iphones, and everybody's cool.”

Ifs Needs Cost Dollars Add Phones Chinese Apples Iphone Living Wage

Author:Bill McKibben

“When one is that powerful and one think life will last like that forever, it is simply the most ephemeral thing. I don't think these sons and daughters of drug dealers are contributing to a lasting peace nor to human values that add to our society. They're delivering the message of riches and power that comes at the cost of people's lives and health and they incentivize young people to follow this model.”

“That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do I - even here, even now - as it sweeps us like leaves into his backseat corner, dancing us to shreds against the stones. V'la l'bon vent, v'a l'joli vent. I though we'd silenced it for good. But the smallest thing can wake the wind@ a word, a sign, even a death. There's no such thing as a trivial thing. Everything costs; it all adds up until finally the balance shifts and we're gone again, back on the road, telling ourselves - well maybe next time”

Wells Made Moving Mother Next Felt Gone Wind Balance Cost Stones Add Dancing Corners Smallest Next Time Backseat Trivial Things Maybe Next Time

Author:Joanne Harris

“A long time ago, Trinity and I made a list of types of guys you should never date. We add to it every now and then. It includes things like never date a guy whose computer costs more than his car (you'll never get him to pay attention to you except over instant messages), never date a guy who has a pet lizard (he's probably into weird stuff in bed) and never under any circumstances go on a second date with a guy who says the word "married" on the first date (he'll turn out to be a mama's boy or a religious type)”

Source: I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It