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1 " t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while there may be just wars and unjust wars, there are never any cheap wars. "
― Paul Hoffman , The Left Hand of God (The Left Hand of God, #1)
2 " This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment. Every defendant pays a price. "
― William Landay , Defending Jacob
3 " He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Citizen of the Galaxy
4 " I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy. "
