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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.
The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family.
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
Put plainly, China seems determined to steal its way up the economic ladder, at our expense.
We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.
Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.
Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.
The truly greedy, it seems to me, are those who think they've a right to live well at the expense of others.
I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.
I have no special knowledge of markets, so I invest solely in low-expense index funds, plus some cryptocurrencies.
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.
In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.
The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.
How wide is all this long pretense!
There is in love a sweetness ready penned,
Copy out only that, and save expense.
In my twenties, I was virulently opposed to anyone commenting on my appearance, lest it come at the expense of my ability.
I think as a woman it's in our nature to nurture someone else. Sometimes at the expense of ourselves.
The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.
Indeed, President Trump seems to have a pretty good idea how to enrich oneself at taxpayer expense.
We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.
Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!
With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.
It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.
I certainly understand very much what it's (like when) an expense comes up and you're trying to figure out how to pay for it.
There have been times where I have said, even in a sketch that I'm not in, 'I don't think you should be making that joke at the expense of Asian people.'
If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.
..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.
There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.
There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
The American political machinery is awesome to behold in its scale and expense and waste and madness. It's the greatest circus on Earth I suppose.
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.
Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.
Family policy is not a zero-sum game: any gain for dads need not come at the expense of mums.
Are we going to fire the father to hire the son? We want to create jobs for young people, but not at the expense of others.
Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.
Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
At the same time, I definitely want to expand my fan base but not at the expense of prostituting my music or heart.
Personally, I think neutral is just another way of saving your own ass at the expense of someone else's.
Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.
Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.
