The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

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About Flip Wilson

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Clerow "Flip" Wilson Jr. (December 8, 1933 – November 25, 1998) was an American comedian and actor best known for his television appearances during the late 1960s and 1970s. From 1970 to 1974, Wilson hosted his own weekly variety series The Flip Wilson Show, and introduced viewers to his recurring...

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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

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There is a well-worn adage that those who set out upon a great enterprise would do well to count the cost. I am not sure that this is always true. I think that some of the very greatest enterprises in this world have been carried out successfully simply because the people who undertook them did not count the cost; and I am much of the opinion that… the most instructive consideration for us is the cost of doing nothing.

—Thomas Henry Huxley

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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

—Norman Mailer

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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character… would you slow down? Or speed up?

—Chuck Palahniuk in Invisible Monsters

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What you get free costs too much.

—Jean Anouilh

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Free advice is worth the price.

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