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Robin Sloan

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Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.
DUSTIN LYNCH Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
MATTHEW STEWART In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to wor...
IQBAL QUADIR When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
ARTHUR ASHE This is the lesson they learned from the government: that terror pays and aggression pays.
NOAM ARNON It's not your typical job. It pays well if you do the job right and build a client base.
ALEX PEREZ When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
ARTHUR ASHE Who pays for that?
STEVE HAMILTON Hard work pays peanuts, smart work pays dividends.
APURVA GAGLANI Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver.
GILLES VIGNEAULT You can take organic materials ? leather, steel, wood and fabrics ? and mix them in the right way.
AMANDA PAYS You can take organic materials — leather, steel, wood and fabrics �...
AMANDA PAYS You can't fail with linen. It gives the chair a European classic look of its own.
AMANDA PAYS Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to...
AMANDA PAYS I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.
AMANDA PAYS You can take organic materials — leather, steel, wood and fabrics — and mix them in the right way....
AMANDA PAYS He pays attention to everything.
LAURA SEEGER We want to ensure that PG&E pays all of the legitimate claims that it receives.
ED LEE Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now
AUTHOR UNKNOWN You shouldn't expect to see co-pays that high. That's something we'd want to check out.
ALEX TRUJILLO Housekeeping? If it pays well, I might as well have a try.
ZHANG MING Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.
KEN JENNINGS Beg a man for money,he will deny you,but come to him threatening his life with arms & armunitions & ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now
LARRY KERSTEN It's just the same kind of arresting gear that they use onboard aircraft carriers.
JOHN MASSEY Integrity is the greatest commodity that pays the highest salary in any human endeavor. Integrity re...
MICHAEL QUANSAH If someone pays for a license, they will get access to the source code.
BRAD SMITH And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue
MALAYSIAN PROVERB Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
FULTON J. SHEEN Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
--FULTON J. SHEEN Jealousy is the price mediocrity pays to excellence.
DAN WALDSCHMIDT I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy ...
J. C. WATTS Persistence Pays...Period.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II No one pays me to be nice.
AARON ALLSTON It pays to be a fee fiend.
SUZE ORMAN I know something about aircraft carriers. And I can't wait to tell this country that landing on an a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN For whatever reason he opened up that match and he destroyed the guy. When he decides to shoot, it u...
DARREN JOHNSON Developers shouldn't be able to build whatever they want, whatever it looks like.
LISA GOODMAN It pays to get drunk with the best people.
JOE E. LEWIS Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
GEORGE SEWELL Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
CHARLES CURTIS Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
OSCAR WILDE Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
GROVER NORQUIST It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the w...
HENRY FORD Anyone who has had experience with organized crime would tell you that the mob never pays to hire co...
PETER QUIJANO The large majority of contractors are good contractors, and we value their services to the city and ...
ISSA DADOUSH It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who p...
HENRY FORD A man limits his abilities himself according to his created interest, and then he pays very little a...
FAISAL NAWAZ MAITLO He's a thug, and I want him out. He's always been a thug. I'll do everything in my power to see that...
BRYAN COLANGELO Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer o...
DAVE BARRY There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much...
HAROLD WILSON Base is the slave that pays.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of th...
RAMAKRISHNA Let's face it — programmers want to program, they don't want to do their laundry. We make it easy ...
ERIC SCHMIDT Let's face it — programmers want to program, they don't want to do their laundry. We make it easy f...
ERIC SCHMIDT It pays to be honest, but it's slow pay
PROVERB Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Entrepreneurship pays,even when your employer refuses to pay.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You're the best gay friend I've ever had!
AMERICA TALKING TO FRANCE Tenacity and patience pays off.
PAT MULROY All defense contractors have public affairs departments. They know they appear to be war profiteers ...
EUGENE JARECKI The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE I'm very big in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada and America. It's nice. I have a lovely life...
BILLY CONNOLLY Through the winter months, during basketball season, he found time to get to the weight room and to ...
JEFF JODON Sometimes we gamble a little bit too much on defense. Sometimes it pays off. Sometimes it hurts our ...
DOMINIC CRAYTON Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
G. GORDON LIDDY What we're all looking for is someone who doesn't live there, just pays for it
ANDY WARHOL Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.
DAN BROWN Doing so gives the rest of the taxpayers confidence that the system has integrity and accountability...
HARVEY BENNETT Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD There's no other incentive for the wireless carriers to do this if they don't want to.
JUDY BROOMFIELD They’re currently getting about $50,000 a year, and the city pays all the overhead,
JOHN BRYANT All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Google pays advertisers based not just on payment per click but also by number of clicks. The interp...
MARVIN AMMORI God often pays debts without money.
PROVERB He that dies pays all debts
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Lannister always pays his debts.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He that dies pays all debts.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God pays, but not weekly wages.
POLISH PROVERB can get whatever the physician writes the prescription for without a problem. But many who are insur...
DEREK JOHNSON He who pays the piper calls the tune.
PROVERB I would say that they're known for a competitive locals environment and enough value in the players ...
DENNIS CONRAD Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A minute's success pays the failure of years.
ROBERT BROWNING An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The cost of living is dying, everybody pays.
UNKNOWN They say he who pays the piper dictates the tune,that's why man's spirit is a slave to man's flesh.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the biggest gaps in health care in Humboldt County is in dental care, and the enhanced premiu...
ALAN KATZ The one who pays the piper calls the tune
AMERICAN PROVERB Whoever pays should control; whoever pays should sanction. I agree. But budgetary union should be co...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE He that dies pays all his debts.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Doing things for others always pays dividends...
CLAUDE M. BRISTOL C'est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them
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