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“Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.”

Universe Behinds Middle Cost Tonight

Book:The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

Source: The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.”

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“People sometimes are under the impression that finding their property corners should cost as much as changing their oil or blowing out their sprinklers. What they don't realize is that land surveyors are required to stand behind their work for the rest of their lives.”

People Should Sometimes Realizing Behinds Land Cost Findings Property Corners Oil Impression Surveyors Land Surveyor

Author:Mark Mason

“There's no razor in candy. If for no other reason, it doesn't make financial sense. It's not fiscally prudent. How much does a piece of candy cost - like, a penny and a half? An apple's like 15 cents? Anybody here bought a Mach 3 replacement cartridge recently? They're so expensive, they don't even keep them on the shelf. You know, you have to ask the people behind the counter. I feel like I'm trying to buy enriched plutonium or something.”

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Author:Arj Barker

“In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country in the history of the world. In 2009 alone there were 1.6 million drug-related arrests in the U.S. 1.3 million of these were for possession of drugs alone. Over half were related to marijuana. The forty-year war on drugs has cost $2.5 trillion.”

World Years War Country Today Behinds Half Millions Cost Drug Possession Bars Related Forty Prisoner Marijuana World History War On Drugs

Author:Sam Branson

“The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind”

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Author:John Warren Kindt

“The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of a wind farm collapsing and causing a massive wind-slick. I have never heard of a solar farm collapsing and leaving behind a catastrophic sun-spill.”

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Author:Van Jones

“Many decry rising inequality because it makes those who've fallen behind feel impoverished. But it's done much more than cause hurt feelings. It has also raised the real cost to middle-income families of achieving many basic goals. The process begins with the completely unremarkable fact that top earners have been spending at a substantially higher rate than before. They've been building bigger mansions, staging more elaborate weddings and coming-of-age parties for their kids, buying more and better of everything.”