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What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

~Antonio Porchia

Topics: Costs Lives Much Never Our Our Lives Pay Too Too Much

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Fully implementing the WTO trade facilitation agreement is one ingredient to reduce border delays and costs for traded merchandise.

~Arancha Gonzalez

Topics: Agreement Border Costs Delays Fully Implementing Ingredient Merchandise Reduce Trade Traded Wto

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It makes perfect economic sense to integrate women in the economy in the developing world in order to catch up with advanced countries, thereby minimising socioeconomic costs as well.

~Arancha Gonzalez

Topics: Advanced Catch Costs Countries Developing Developing World Economic Economy Integrate Makes Order Perfect Sense Thereby Up Well Women World

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It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

~Arlen Specter

Topics: About Costs Down Like Million Seat Senate Sit States United United States United States Senate Win You

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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

~Arthur Helps

Topics: Accomplished Achieve Certain Confidence Costs Decided Distaste Gain Having Immense Labor Once Self Task Tiresome

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When you look at the government, when the government collects a buck, it's not free. They have to spend resources, the IRS, audits, all this sort of crap, to collect the dollar. I'm not assuming any Laffer curve effect here at all. There are just transactions costs of collecting that money.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: Any Assuming Buck Collect Collecting Costs Crap Curve Dollar Effect Free Government Here Irs Just Look Money Resources Sort Spend Transactions You

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Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.

~Atul Gawande

Topics: Anywhere Battling Care Care Costs Community Cost Costs Country Cutting Every Health Health Care Improving Increase Just Lowered Medical Only Rate Rationing Rising Services Them World

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

~Baltasar Gracian

Topics: Costs Helps Little Much Oblige Often Persons

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And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Above Care Care Costs Costs Could Deficit Did Get Goal Going Health Health Care Health Care Costs Huge Important Important Thing Inflation Instead Just Level Made Maybe Most Most Important Thing Our Percent Progress Reducing Single Slightly Terms Thing Up Way Why Year

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But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Additional Care Consequence Costs Getting Going Health Health Care Increase Knew Margins Million Our People Reports Saying True Us You

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