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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
H. L. Mencken
Believe
Follies
Costly
True
Most
Occupation
Passionately
Chief
Mankind
Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
Gary Speed
Nature
Mistakes
Everybody
Costly
Make
Makes
Goalkeeper
Being
Them
Only by observing the laws of nature can mankind avoid costly blunders in its exploitation. Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us. This is a reality we have to face.
Xi Jinping
Nature
Reality
Will
Face
Exploitation
Haunt
Costly
Laws
Only
Observing
Return
Any
Inflict
Blunders
Mankind
Us
Avoid
Eventually
Harm
Fusion has not been proven to be safe, and it is too costly.
Masatoshi Koshiba
Too
Fusion
Costly
Safe
Proven
Been
Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.
Tom Wolfe
Communism
Way
Pretty
Costly
Idealistic
Spread
Goal
Did
Stop
Achieved
Which
Really
Vietnam
Thing
Progressive Democratic President Barack Obama swept into power hell-bent on forcing through a makeover of our nation's healthcare system. The result was a costly new tax and failed programme, the Affordable Care Act.
Anthony Scaramucci
Result
Care
Power
Forcing
Nation
President
President Barack Obama
Progressive
Our
System
Obama
Costly
Through
Failed
New
Democratic
Makeover
Healthcare
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Tax
Barack
Barack Obama
Act
Swept
Programme
Whether you are checking luggage or bringing a carry-on, always weigh and measure your bags to make sure they are below the airline's size and weight restrictions. Excess baggage fees can be costly. Avoid all baggage fees by only bringing a carry-on.
Gillian Tans
You
Airline
Costly
Only
Restrictions
Excess
Weigh
Weight
Baggage
Bags
Checking
Fees
Make
Sure
Always
Size
Whether
Your
Measure
Avoid
Luggage
Bringing
Below
You can sometimes avoid costly mistakes. Paint a corner of the room a certain color to see how the light affects it. Or buy just one yard of an expensive fabric to see how you like it in your room.
Alexandra Stoddard
Buy
You
Sometimes
Light
Mistakes
Corner
Fabric
See
Costly
Color
Like
Yard
How
Affects
Just
Expensive
Just One
Room
Certain
Your
Avoid
Paint
The list of costly services that supplement some children's public education is growing longer and now includes consultants, tutors, and test prep. That's in addition to the homework help some stay-at-home parents can afford to provide.
Alissa Quart
Education
Public Education
Parents
Homework
Addition
Stay-At-Home
Some
Costly
Consultants
Supplement
Longer
Test
Provide
Afford
List
Children
Public
Tutors
Help
Prep
Growing
Now
Services
It might be expensive to make music lessons available. But it's even more costly to deal with human beings who have half their intellect and spirit left undeveloped.
Andris Nelsons
Music
Half
Spirit
Costly
More
Make
Deal
Intellect
Left
Human
Expensive
Human Beings
Available
Might
Who
Lessons
Beings
Even
Monetary policy has less room to maneuver when interest rates are close to zero, while expansionary fiscal policy is likely both more effective and less costly in terms of increased debt burden when interest rates are pinned at low levels.
Ben Bernanke
Burden
Increased
Rates
Costly
More
Both
Likely
Terms
Policy
Fiscal
Pinned
Effective
Debt
Close
Maneuver
While
Interest
Interest Rates
Low
Room
Less
Monetary
Zero
Monetary Policy
Levels
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
Benjamin Netanyahu
You
Would
Would-Be
Weapons
Costly
Scenario
More
Iranian
Than
Infinitely
Any
Stop
Acquisition
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Imagine
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
Charles Krauthammer
War
Risks
Oppose
Possibly
Costly
Exceed
Could
Iraq
Very
Gains
Urban
Warfare
Doves
Grounds
When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
Cory Booker
War
Home
Class
Patriotism
Country
Nation
Pay
Our
Soldiers
Crisis
Class Warfare
Costly
Abroad
Facing
Share
Sacrificing
Fair
Fair Share
Debt
Being
Warfare
Asked
Your
Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.
David Stern
Work
You
Free
Free Speech
Indeed
Costly
Rather
Sort
Been
Governments
Than
Owners
Acknowledge
Which
Against
Coaches
Agree
NBA
Players
Speech
What you really want is for a cyberattack to be very costly and risky so it is used only rarely and only against really high-value targets.
Dmitri Alperovitch
You
Rarely
Costly
Only
Risky
Very
Targets
Want
Against
Really
Used
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
Ellis Peters
Truth
Value
Costly
Price
Never
Falls
End
Short
In The End
Paid
Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments.
Emily Oster
Future
Time
Health
You
Depend
Live
Every
Every Time
Those
Carrot
Costly
Gym
Invest
Investment
Investments
Instead
Longer
Make
How
How Much
Go
Expect
Going
Want
Movies
Much
Your
Cookie
Even
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.
Francis Fukuyama
Time
Conservative
Discipline
Wait
Joke
Country
Before
Valid
Approaches
System
Must
Costly
Rationale
Take
Advances
Generational
Tenure
New
Economists
Institutions
Most
Academy
Still
Yes
Hold
Fields
Turned
Turnover
Many
Wholesale
Funeral
Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.
Fred Melamed
Christmas
Great
Gift
Great Deal
Giving
Enjoy
Extremely
Pleasing
Though
Costly
Both
Proposition
Stuff
Well
Because
Deal
Boy
Twin
Access to water is an animal welfare issue, yet, unfortunately, governments still make it difficult and costly to obtain water licences and approvals to build and develop new water points.
Gina Rinehart
Animal
Water
Welfare
Build
Difficult
Costly
Points
Develop
New
Obtain
Make
Access
Still
Issue
Governments
Unfortunately
For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.
Greg Bear
Terrorism
Will
Before
Military
Out
Threat
Costly
More
Troublesome
Perhaps
Deadly
Amateur
Been
Years
Ultimately
Than
Trying
Labs
Turn
Far
Warn
Even
Nuclear
In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.
Harvey Mackay
Great
Training
Competition
Costly
Budgets
Tight
Stiff
Climate
Reduced
Conferences
Substitute
Internal
Workshops
Everything has gotten less expensive. Digitization has made content, whether it's print or music, less costly. Today, anyone can read the news for free online.
Hubert Burda
Today
Music
News
Made
Free
Everything
Costly
Online
Read
Print
Content
Gotten
Expensive
Anyone
Whether
Less
It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.
James Taylor
Day
You
Every Day
Every
Chunks
Way
Find
Costly
More
Years
Huge
After
Happens
Much
Hard
Forward
Growth
As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
Joe Baca
Women
Pride
Men
Men And Women
Military
Watershed
Our
Costly
America
Esteem
Uniform
Harbor
Moment
Lives
Assets
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
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