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«The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.»
«True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.»
«You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.»
Author: Bob Hope (Actor, Comedian) | About: Funny | Keywords: cake, candles, cost
«To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness»
«You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.»
«we must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained»
Author: Marie Curie (Physicist) | Keywords: attained, cost, gifted
«The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.»
Author: Meister Eckhart (Theologian, Writer) | About: Mistakes | Keywords: cost, inaction, mistake, price
«The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.»
«Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.»
«We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.»

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