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“Swapping Bergdahl for illegal enemy combatants (terrorists, in common parlance) signaled unmistakably to Taliban and al Qaeda that Obama is determined to withdraw from Afghanistan no matter what the cost to the United States or those in Afghanistan fighting to remain free.”

Matter States Fighting United Common Enemy United States Cost No Matter What Determined Terrorist Illegal Als Afghanistan Al Qaeda Taliban Swapping

Author:John Bolton

“The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.”

People Matter Mets Cost No Matter What Determined

Book:The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

Source: The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

“I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.”

World Soul Wanted Half Pride Cost Islam Determined My Soul Making Peace

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.”

Doe Care Broken Lovers Cost Areas Window Determined Scales Signals Large Scale No One Cares Broken Windows

Book:On Character: Essays

Source: On Character: Essays

“The Cable Guy was underbudgeted, so it was always a debate about whether we could have more days or certain things that we needed, because the budget was determined before the script was written. So that made it a hard production on everybody. But it's also a funny thing, because it's one of those movies that cost $40 million to make and made $100 million around the world, but at the time, it seemed like a disaster that it didn't make hundreds of millions of dollars, because Jim was on such a tear. But it was actually a successful movie.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.”

Body Next Animal Generations Teaching Higher Cost Behavior Complexes Determined Dna Flexibility Adaptation Next Generation Dependency Adaptive

Book:The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

“Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].”

Men Way Persons Whole Past Dies Cost Weight Determined Immortality Way To Live

Author:Alan Lightman