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One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
Chris Van Hollen

Education, Greatest, Poverty

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
Terry Eagleton

Business, Learning, End

I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.
Amy Poehler

Done, Black, Big

If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.
Robert Caro

Good, Power, Human

As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and Democrats have no solutions for that. Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive.
Grover Norquist

Government, Long, Two

I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.
Jenson Button

Crazy, Fun, Regret

The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.
Kevin Kelly

Choice, Less, Process

In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.
Malcolm Turnbull

Money, Important, Else

There's the issue of hunger, and there's an issue of if you're going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down?
Tom Colicchio

Food, Down, Healthy

No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.
Lindsey Graham

Health, Care, Until

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.
Paul Wolfowitz

High, Economy, Remains

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
May Sarton

True, Feeling, May

He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it.
Bill Hybels

Great, God, Him

As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last.
Jo Nesbo

Love, Beautiful, Last

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
Arthur C. Nielsen

Business, Job, Accept

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
Ralph Merkle

Technology, Less, Grow

The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.
Evo Morales

Live, Living, Wanting

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
Piers Anthony

Book, Self, Free

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.
Joe Baca

Medical, Care, Reason

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.
Azar Nafisi

Success, Negative, Dream

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.
Georg Solti

Money, Mother, Enough

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
Vincent D'Onofrio

Acting, Rather, Took

It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
Ben Bernanke

Work, Small, Higher

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.
Arabella Weir

Learn, Few, Failing

It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.
Norman Ralph Augustine

High, Achieve, Ten

At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.
Eric Ries

Through, Same, Less

The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas.
Eric Ries

Money, Reality, Less

We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.
Lance Burton

Birthday, Time, Money

But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
Brent Scowcroft

War, Whatever, Against

Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.
Bernie Sanders

Health, Problem, Times

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