"A civilization has the ethics it can afford" — Larry Niven

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• War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
• When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
• When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America… — Lester Bangs
• I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these… — Lester Bangs
• A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
• Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with… — George Matthew Adams
• I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college… — Dave Barry
• Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream… — Joe Barton
• Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its… — William Beveridge
• No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation. — Theodore Bikel
• I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it.… — Bono
• In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it… — Christian Nestell Bovee

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