What you have become is the ...

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
 Mignon McLaughlin

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
 Mignon McLaughlin
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.
 Mignon McLaughlin
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
 Mignon McLaughlin
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
 Mignon McLaughlin
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
 Mignon McLaughlin