“What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Lo pagado con nuestra vida nunca es caro.
Voces (1943)
Life Without and Life Within (1859), Sub Rosa, Crux
Context: The pass-word now is lost
To that initiation full and free;
Daily we pay the cost
Of our slow schooling for divine degree.
We know no means to feed an undying lamp;
Our lights go out in every wind or damp.
“What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Lo pagado con nuestra vida nunca es caro.
Voces (1943)
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) American libertarian thinker
Source: Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (1980), p. 246
Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845) British author and journalist
"That a Burnt Child often Dreads the Fire".
Sketches from Life (1846)
Michael Bloomberg (1942) American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City
http://mikebloomberg.com/en/issues/environment_sustainability/mayor_michael_bloomberg_delivers_planyc_a_greener_greater_new_york
Environment
“And the food for the soul passes, candid and free, without paying tribute to the customs.”
Juan Ramón Jimenéz (1881–1958) Spanish poet
Source: Platero and I (1917), Ch. 2 : White Butterflies, as translated by Eloïse Roach (1957).
Context: The man wants to stick his iron pick in the little basket, and I do not prevent him. I open the knapsack, and he sees nothing in it. And the food for the soul passes, candid and free, without paying tribute to the customs.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, April, Foreign Policy Speech (27 April 2016)
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
interview with Joe Rogan, published 2018-09-06