“So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or more. Just to put that in perspective, that sum could have built 200 schools in poor countries around the world for kids who desperately want an education. Then Kardashian could have helped transform the world, not just entertain it. And the schools would have lasted incomparably longer than her marriage.” WorldWantCountryKidsSchoolPoorMillionsPerspectiveCostBuiltDivorceAround The WorldKimPoor CountriesAccess To EducationGetting A Divorce Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other no less artificial expedients. Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built.” RealProcessExistenceBuildingTheoryCostBuiltDescriptionArtificialStandpoint Book:Word and Object Source: Word and Object
“The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for it that warrants its development and manufacturing costs; second, whether the laws of physics applying to the elements available for its design allow the attainment of the needed ranges, sensitivities, or the like; and third, whether the pertinent art of manufacture has advanced sufficiently to allow a useful embodiment to be built successfully.” FirstsArtUseLawThreeDesignDependsDevelopmentNeededCostElementsBuiltThirdsAvailablePhysicsPracticalsRangeDevicesSensitivityThree ThingsAttainmentManufacturingEmbodimentWarrantsLaws Of PhysicsPertinent Book:MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY Source: MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY
“Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not go willingly to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone once said, 'Salvation is free, but not cheap.' It cost Jesus His life.” SaidSufferingDiesJesusEasyChristGraceCostOffersBuiltCrossesSalvationEasy LifeCheap Grace Author:Billy Graham
“In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.” WorldWould BeCompanyCostBuiltDollarsGreat ThingsBridgesTolls Author:Warren Buffett
“The problem is, to have prices fall would work fine if we didn't have all these built in rigidities on downward prices, because then things don't adjust, and that's how we have recessions and depressions, is prices and costs don't adjust together and they get out of whack, and we end up with dislocations.” IfsEndsProblemTogetherFallFineCostBuiltRecessionsRigidityDislocation Author:Charles Koch
“The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.” LongHas BeensCostBuiltStonesTalesGreat ThingsTallTowers Author:Stephen King