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[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.

I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.

For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in faith. On the pragmatic view the only thing that matters is that the theory is efficacious, that it 'works' and that the necessary preliminaries and side issues do not cost too much in time and effort. Beyond that, theory and concepts go to constitute a language in which the scientistic matters at issue can be formulated and discussed.

I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess, That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.

It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs.

We have the misconception that competitiveness means winning at all costs, but that's not what competition is. Competition is just doing your best and not giving up. We all face a moment in a race or in a competition in which we want to give up. We can either give in and not keep pushing, or we can charge forward and work through it.

Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

I feel bad for people who die on Valentine's Day. How much would flowers cost then, ten grand?

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. ... It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits - all should share in the costs.

At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.