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“The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told blatant lies - easily checkable, blatant lies - and I'm not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men - 15 of them are Saudis - and five minutes later the whole country thinks they're from Iraq - how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O.J. Simpson jurors.”

“Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off.”

Men Looks Doe Made Real Self Purpose Social Existence Needed Promise Perfection Paid Salvation Deny Contracts Procedures Bourgeois Selected Basements Real Self Social Contract

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.”

Night Player Football College Huge Paid Tables Nfl Thursday

Author:Jay Leno

“This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.”

Men Blood Glory Paid Heavy Reckoning

Book:The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

“Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing.”

Giving Different Doors Taste Paid Torture Different Things Dozen Positively

Book:Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc

Source: Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc

“There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt”

Age Lasts Loneliness Wall Solitude Worship Balls Paid Debt Crystals Gems Crystal Ball

Book:The Lyrics: Since 1962

Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962

Has Beens Country States United United States Periods Argument Paid Saved Our Time Folly Transition Fearful Catastrophe

Book:SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

“Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.”

Paid Clever

Author:Donald A. Norman

“Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.”

Thinking Should Two Book Different Facts Attention Five Elements Six Paid Appearance Tricks Vain Propositions Geometry Algebra Obtaining Geometric

Author:Omar Khayyam

“Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be done to, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.”

Men Should Littles War Done Sex Enjoy Feminism Terrible Walking Shots Built Paid Betrayal Sexuality Aids Dumb One Man Void Indulge Prostitution Masturbation Indulge In Collaborators Null

Author:Julie Burchill

“It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.”

Years Firsts Book Soul Father Individual Path Generations Sacrifice Mankind Danger Eternal Relation Paid Ill Teeth Guilty Recognition Merit Infidelity Best Year Encyclopedia

Author:Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“I paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the souls of those who had fought for the country and made ultimate sacrifices. I have made a pledge never to wage war again, that we must build a world that is free from the sufferings of the devastation of war.”

World Made War Soul Country Suffering Sacrifice Praying Ultimate Paid Pledge Devastation Shrines Ultimate Sacrifice

Author:Shinzo Abe

“The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.”

Doe Facts Asks Possibility Birth Fit Blessing Paid Productions Goods

Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment

Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment

“Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.”

Wells Art Lying Acting Paid Deceit

Author:Mel Gibson

“Ambition's debt is paid.”

Ambition Paid Debt

Author:William Shakespeare

“Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.”

Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out.”

Values Paid Saved Pennies

Author:Martin Luther

“The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways: 1st - When they are neglected in infancy 2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them. 3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour.”

Way May Use Three Class Ignorance Lows Paid Labour Oppressed Working Class Wages Employers Neglected Incompetent Three Ways

Author:Robert Owen

“I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big difference between having a sincere, passionate interest in a topic and being a paid shill. Particularly for PR firms, it's something they should really very strongly avoid: ever touching an article.”

People Thinking Knows Should Bigs Interest Differences Argument Paid Passionate Firm Sincere Touching Articles Very Strong Topics Shills

Author:Jimmy Wales

“Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.”

Years Used Race Attention Paid Used To Be Rhythm Rhythm And Blues

Author:Ray Charles

“PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.”

Humans Looks Human Beings Watches Personality Couple Becoming Paid Boring Thanks Tonight Shopping Amusing Inviting Tithe

Author:Douglas Coupland

“The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid.”

Source: The Theater and Its Double

“Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.”

World Feels Writing Humans Deals Responsibility Accepting Principles Position Bears Horror Essentials Paid Aversion Specialization

Author:Vaclav Havel

“The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.”

Made Kids Faces Secret Records Alive Streets Rocks Band Machines Paid Guitar Debt Hungry Contact Rock N Roll Flash Unseen Blades Hustle Hunted

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.”

Ifs Writing Wells Stills I Can Night Found Dark Plans One Thing Tomorrow Summer Window Empty Paid Dues Golden Midst Lit Stormy Inns Writing Every Day Stormy Nights

Author:Tanith Lee

“I've always paid attention to religion because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them - other than goat sacrificing.”

Thinking Felt Religious Attention Sacrifice Grew Grew Up Paid Backgrounds Goats

Author:Brad Pitt

“Emmitt Smith is in a position, in my opinion, where he should be the highest-paid running back in football. He's a guy who has gone out and led the league in rushing and been productive.”

Should Running Guy Opinion Gone Position Football Highest Paid League Productive Rushing Running Back

Author:Emmitt Smith

“All Politicians should be required to wear uniforms like Racing Car Drivers with patches showing the donations received from special interest groups so we know who has paid them off!”

Knows Should Interest Groups Special Car Politician Paid Drivers Racing Uniforms Patches Special Interests Donation Race Car Interest Groups Special Interest Groups

Author:John Wallace

“Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." ... The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.”

Ifs Seems Common Attitude Opinion Claims Paid Management Sells Property Finance Corporate Phrases Owners Investors Superintendents

Author:Benjamin Graham

“If you have to hire paid actors to impersonate people who politically support you, people don't actually natively politically support you. You are not a political animal that exists in nature.”

People Ifs Political Actors Animal Support Paid Support You Impersonate Political Animals

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid.”

Thinking Benefits Paid Wikipedia

Author:Andrew Keen

“I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.”

Way Ends School Order Week Months Decided Paid Newspapers Sensible Arranging

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it's responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax cuts will not undermine our economy. They will speed economic growth.”

Growth Economy Cutting Plans Economic Taxes Paid Responsible Speed Budgets Balanced Economic Growth Tax Cuts Balanced Budget

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.”

Poverty Paid Income Lifts Fixed Senior Taxpayers Medicare Fixed Income

Author:John F. Kerry

“I think films would get a lot better if people paid leaving the cinema. There's a whole business plan of opening terrible films in hundreds of cinemas and then closing them when the word of mouth gets out.”

People Ifs Thinking Whole Film Plans Terrible Mouths Paid Leaving Opening Cinema Closing Business Plan Word Of Mouth

Author:Graham Linehan

“I care about being paid fairly for what I do. When I approach a project, I put my whole heart and soul into it. Because I really care about it.”

Heart Soul Whole Care Projects Approach Paid I Care Heart And Soul

Author:Michael Jackson

“We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain. Tragically Londoners have now paid the price of the government ignoring such warnings.”

Country Government Security Increase Paid Threat Iraq Terrorist Britain Warning Afghanistan Terrorist Attacks Londoners

Author:George Galloway

“Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.”

People Want Technology Economy Information Expectations Paid Foolish Setting Settings Digital Online Sensibility Dominant Scenarios Utopian Groove Digital Technology

Book:Who Owns the Future?

Source: Who Owns the Future?

“Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures.”

Should Used Causes Paid Institutions Trade Corporations Labour Endeavor Agriculture Apprenticeship

Book:Population: The First Essay

Source: Population: The First Essay

“We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid.”

Wells Doe Two Helping Hours Brain Television Doctors Paid Busy Behave Forty Entertaining Pills Too Busy Prescriptions

Author:Conor Oberst

“The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they chafed in impatience and disgust. The religious element in the colony-unlike the former Huguenot emigration to Brazil--was evidently subordinate. The adventurers thought more of their fortunes than of their faith.”

Young Religious Elements Expectations Paid Fortune Golden Former Expenses Disgusting Volunteer Harvest Impatience Colony Subordinates Brazil Adventurer Emigration

Book:Pioneers of France in the New World

Source: Pioneers of France in the New World

“I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.”

Want Simple Students Research Paid Researchers Algorithms Grad

Author:Larry Page

“Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.”

Paid Stupidity

Book:Carrion Comfort

Source: Carrion Comfort

“You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.”

Should My Own Saws Paid Ridiculous Purple Zeppelins Deep Purple

Author:Angus Young

“Anyone who wishes to combine domestic responsibilities and paid employment with the least stress and most enjoyment might start by pondering this paradox: the first step to better functioning is to stop blaming herself for not functioning well enough.”

Firsts Wells Enough Might Wish Responsibility Steps Stress Paid Blame Employment Enjoyment Paradox First Steps Pondering

Book:Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

Source: Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

“Everyone has some natural talent or aptitude in one or more areas. If you can identify those areas you not only will be happier and perform more successfully in that role, but you will also become better paid for that. Our free-market system pays for performance at some point. When you have a natural talent or aptitude, coupled with desire and experience, the result is productivity plus.”

Ifs Desire Natural Results Pay Roles Talent Areas Performances Paid Productivity Plus Free Market Aptitude Natural Talent

Book:Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families

Source: Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families

“One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.”

Firsts Products Paid Instance

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

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

“The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.”

Today Reading Simple Half Situation Figures Industry Internet Cost Machines Paid Newspapers Fund Articles Cents Banking Payment Transfers Dwarfs Dwarves

Author:Erik Naggum

“If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm done. I hate brights... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for.”

Ifs Wells May Done Use Might Hate Half Cutting Materials I Hate Paid Seven Eight Scissors

Author:Nelson Shanks

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