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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken

Love, Country, Speak

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold S. Geneen

Business, Experience, Two

It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
Warren Buffett

Through, America, Against

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge

Before, Worry, Trouble

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.
Mike Tyson

Time, Money, Vegas

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith

Money, Wealth, Original

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
Albert Schweitzer

Everyday, Somebody

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
Aldous Huxley

Good, Culture, Pay

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin

Powerful, Become, Universe

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
Ray Bradbury

Life, Off, Somehow

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom, Full, Price

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
Abigail Adams

Care, Attention, Ourselves

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Feeling, Three, Afternoon

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Death, Sleep, Pay

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
William Jennings Bryan

Faith, Money, God

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin

Become, Used, Price

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy

Successful, Long, Everything

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George Eliot

End, Father, Bit

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.
Chuck Palahniuk

Money, Great, Fight

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Robert Peel

Time, Give, Attention

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
Charlie Dent

Freedom, May, Sacrifice

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Good, Mistakes, Advice

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.
Elizabeth Warren

Good, Fire, Rest

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Gratitude, Expect, Duty

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
James A. Baldwin

Culture, Price, Heavy

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
Rudyard Kipling

Him, Again, Once

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
Kanye West

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Noel Coward

Age, Nothing, Old

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.
Julia Roberts

Long, Speak, Attention

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
Golda Meir

True, Won, Anymore

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