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• Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Ninety, My Time, Five

  "Surfing the Universe" by Benjamin Wallace-Wells, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.

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• Getting picked gives you half that confidence, or 50 per cent of it

  Glenn Frank

  Giving, Half

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• Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Twenties, Sound, Three

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• Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me.

  Arjun Rampal

  Battle, Body, Needs

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• The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

  Alan Coren

  Today, Useless, Cigarette

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.183, Canongate Books

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• If I can get David Haye , he will sink, one hundred per cent!

  Tony Bellew

  Hundred, Ifs, I Can

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• You can't win a majority mandate unless you get back 60 per cent of the votes between the ages of 18 and 35. It's a fact.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Winning, Age, Majority

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.

  Jello Biafra

  Running, Ideas, Lucky

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• Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8  months of last year was 42.3 per cent above the corresponding period the year previous, and our total trade with Asia was up 13.5 per cent. For the first time since 1919, the United States in the first 8 months of 1956 accounted for less than 60 percent of our total trade.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Years, Europe, Progress

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• It's important for women to understand that it's bad enough that we don't make dollar-for-dollar what men do, but when you distill that down to women of color, our Latinas and our African American women, it's even less than that 78 cents.

  Nina Turner

  Men, Color, African American

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think that in the future, as more and more money and wealth goes to the 1 per cent, it's going to polarize into the people who are for and anti-freedom. It's not that they'll have a left and a right wing thing, it's going to be a freedom and anti-freedom polarization, I think.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Wings, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We have an enormous support within the Dutch public. One million people voted for my party.If we would've been extreme, we would've got 0.01 per cent of the vote. We got more than 10 per cent of the vote.

  Geert Wilders

  Party, People, Support

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• If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference.

  Warren Buffett

  Prayer, Differences, Losing

  Source: hurricanecapital.wordpress.com

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• I don't know why women would think they would be underrepresented in that 40 per cent, and I do not know why they think they would be underrepresented in that 60 per cent either. Because, any community that has their traditional leader in the area, one would expect that, among the people, they would want to ensure that this committee, that 60%, is properly representative.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, People, Leader

  Source: www.gov.za

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• There is a tendency just to talk about foreign investors. Over 80 per cent of new investment in the South African economy is South African and therefore the engagement of the South African investor is also a critical part of this process.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Engagement, Investment, Economy

  Source: www.gov.za

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• We have Latinas in California making 55 cents on the dollar. Black women making 63 cents on the dollar. White women making 78 cents on the dollar. It doesn't change very much year by year, it might go up or down a penny, but oftentimes, the years that it goes up are the same years that men are making a little bit more. It's pretty much always in proportion.

  Patricia Arquette

  Men, Years, California

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra, a fact that is evident from the alternatives they tend to offer to public prevention of private abuses. For example: if you don’t like working a hundred hours a week for twenty-five cents a day, then find another employer! It is obvious to intelligent people, if not libertarians, that more generous employers will price themselves out of a market whose standards are set by the most rapacious.

  Michael Lind

  Intelligent, Light, People

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• We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Dollars, Hours, Minutes

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1840). “The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville ...”, p.17

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• Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

  O. Henry

  Medicine, Funeral, Patient

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.401, Delphi Classics

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• If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Dollars, Pay

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.19, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected.

  Benjamin Graham

  Real, Loss, Sound

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham, Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 25, 1949.

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• Many people are coming to this country for economic reasons. They're coming here to work. If you can make 50 cents in the heart of Mexico, for example, or make $5 here in America, $5.15, you're going to come here if you're worth your salt, if you want to put food on the table for your families. And that's what's happening.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Heart, America

  The third and final presidential debate between President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry, www.washingtonpost.com. October 13, 2004.

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• What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, Equal Pay, America

  "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". The debate at Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Marketing, and the whole firm, should devote extraordinary endeavour towards delighting, keeping for ever and expanding the sales to the 20 per cent of customers who provide 80 per cent.

  Richard Koch

  Marketing, Endeavour, Should

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.96, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these problems can only be depicted. But photographs, private ones and others, keep appearing that fascinate me so much that I want to paint them. And sometimes the real meaning these images have for me only becomes apparent later.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Want

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