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I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men. — Mario Puzo
I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself — Daniel Keyes
The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently. — Donald Barthelme
HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. — George Bernard Shaw
Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear lady, you cannot… — Cassandra Clare
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose. — Thomas A. Edison
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. — Peter Drucker
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt,… — Noam Chomsky
If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to… — Charles Luckman
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when… — Desmond Tutu
I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I… — George Soros
There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some… — Phillips Brooks
We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders -… — Abraham Lincoln
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get. — Elbert Hubbard
For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.. — Charles Jaffe
Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the… — George Washington
I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me. — Joseph Jefferson
The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider… — George Polya
And once we have the condition of peace and joy in us, we can afford to be in any situation. Even in the situation of… — Nhat Hanh
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. — John F. Kennedy
Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they… — Martin Luther
We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things. — Jim Rohn
The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets. — Henry David Thoreau

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