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«Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.»
«Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die.»
«Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.»
Author: Orson Welles | Keywords: afford, modest
«The earth upon which the sea, and the rivers and the waters, upon which food and the tribes of men have arisen, upon which this breathing, moving life exists, shall afford us precedence in drinking!»
«I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.»
Author: Phyllis Diller | About: Children, Mothers | Keywords: afford, move in
«I shall make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles»
«Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.»
«I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.»
«Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.»
«I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it's a luxury I can't afford.»

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