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“It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.”

Shows Cost Dues Massive Regulation Entrepreneurial

Author:Cameron Mackintosh

“Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.”

“If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support.”

Source: A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth

“Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.”

Sometimes Pay Moral Higher Integrity Cost Ultimate Dues Compromise

Author:Michael Josephson

“Healthcare costs are rising due to Obamacare.”

Cost Dues Rising Healthcare Obamacare

Author:Joni Ernst

“Contractors always pursue large profit, the customer - a high-quality end product in due time and at a lower cost. This struggle never ends, but this is natural.”

Ends Natural Quality Struggle Products Cost Profit Customers Dues Pursue High Quality Contractor Due Time

Author:Vladimir Putin

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

Social Behinds Cost Taxes Dues Gambling

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.”

Simple Numbers Right Now Cost Sells Customers Dues Oil Producers Geography Pipeline Midwesterners

Author:Ron Wyden

“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.”

Thinking Knows Earth Taken Design Cost Hundred Dollars Errors Dues Hungry Sandwiches What You Love Away From You Lennon Barefoot Seminars High Places

Book:Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Source: Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations