Cents Quotes - Page 17

• I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Jobs, Flower, Clothes

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Men, People, Voting

  Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.14, Verso

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• Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

  Mary Oliver

  Adjectives And Adverbs, Fifty, Five

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

  Brian Blessed

  Winning, Ninety Nine, Making Money

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Fifteen, Cigar

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• With approximately 75 per cent of our rubbish generated by packaging, a few simple steps - buying loose fruit and veg, choosing products with recyclable packaging, and avoiding individually wrapped portions - can have a big impact.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Simple, Impact, Buying

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• Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less.

  Lucy Parsons

  Struggle, Economic Inequality, Hours

  Lucy Eldine Parsons (2004). “Freedom, Equality and Solidarity”, Charles H Kerr Publishing Company

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• Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Jobs, Badass, Islands

  Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed to know. Much more time went into finding or obtaining information than into digesting it. Hours went into the plotting of graphs... When the graphs were finished, the relations were obvious at once, but the plotting had to be done in order to make them so.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Science, Thinking, Order

  J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”

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• Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

  Tommy Steele

  Luck, Able, Shows

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• One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

  Walther Nernst

  Science, Should, Accuracy

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• I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Thinking, Men

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• According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Ignorance, Drug, Important

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• Life is 10 per cent what happens and 90 per cent how you deal with it.

  Jim Stynes

  Wisdom, Life Is, Deals

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• Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have a dark side... 98 per cent of our DNA is the same. The difference is that we have developed language - we can teach about things that aren't there, plan for the future, discuss, share ideas

  Jane Goodall

  Dark, Intelligent, Dna

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• I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Cities, Seven

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• Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

  David Pleat

  Football, Team, Winning

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• The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation.

  Coleman Sellers II

  Dollars, Cost, Economics

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• Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests are heavily impacted or gone yet their destruction continues. An estimated 50,000 species are driven to extinction each year. We dump millions of tonnes of chemicals, most untested for their biological effects, and many highly toxic, into air, water and soil. We have created an ecological holocaust. Our very health and survival are at stake, yet we act as if we have plenty of time to respond.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Air, Years

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• Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Children, Oil, Coal

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• The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.

  Charles Kettering

  Eye, Ideas, Judgement

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• He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Credit, Debt, Deficiency

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.173, Penguin

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• We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

  Ruud Gullit

  Funny, Sports, Football

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• In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body's energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body's weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense.

  Susan Blackmore

  Giving, Brain, Use

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• 'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bad Ass, Two, Space

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