„Things which cost nothing are those which cost the most. Why? Because they cost us the effort of understanding that they are free.“

— Cesare Pavese

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„The cost of liberty is high, and young people should understand that before they start spending their life with all those gadgets.“
— Bob Dylan
„She had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each one of them from the other.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.“
— Marie Curie
„It is unnecessary to attempt any general rule as to where the overall balance lies in comparing the respective costs of knowledge in larger and smaller decision-making units. What is important is to understand that (1) the respective cost advantages of the large and small units differ according to the kind of knowledge involved (general versus specific), that (2) most decisions involve mixtures of the two kinds of knowledge, so that the net advantages of the larger and smaller units vary with the kind of decision, and (3) the effectiveness of hierarchical subordination varies with the extent to which the subordinate unit has knowledge advantages over the higher unit.“
— Thomas Sowell