“I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.” LittlesTwoBodyStudyFashionCostGlassesFavorsScoreTailors Book:King Richard III: Third Series Source: King Richard III: Third Series
“It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.” BigsMotherCitiesBoysStudyOne ThingCostLettersUniversityIndianDocumentsCrowTransportBig BusinessOttawa Author:Jean Chretien
“High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.” ShouldChallengesStudyBirthCostLaborFortuneEsteem Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He argues that there are three mythic solutions to poverty eradication: donations, national economic growth, and big businesses. Instead, he advocates helping the poor earn money through their own efforts of developing low-cost tools that are effective and profitable.” PeopleHelpingBigsThreeGrowthNaturalPoorEffortPovertyStudyEconomicCostApproachSolutionsLowsToolsArguingDevelopingSurroundingsProfitableEconomic GrowthPsychiatristBig BusinessDonationSolutions To Poverty Author:Amy Lockwood