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• If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right in a way. But logic and rationality only go so far. Then you know what happens? Ha! Then your heart adds its two cents and everything reasonable goes right-out-the-window.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Heart, Two, Add

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• kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Stupidity, Causes, Reputation

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• Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Horse, Animal, Eagles

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron--which we cannot get back.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Girl, Heart, Iron

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• I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Drinking, Writing

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 29, 1975.

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• Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Home, Tuna Fish, Nuts

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.77, Pushkin Press

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• I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Gossip, Long, Community

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• The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.

  Siobhan Dowd

  Running, Song, Laughter

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• You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Different, Dollars, Way

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• Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

  Saul Bellow

  Thinking, Nightmare, Life Is

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• You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

  John Steinbeck

  Past, People, Three

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.159, Penguin

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• Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.

  Richard Brautigan

  Suicide, Night, Light

  Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

  C. S. Lewis

  Death, Percentages, Dies

  "The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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• Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Mean, Mad

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• When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Government, Use, Pay

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• I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

  Guy Fieri

  Dad, Kids, Trying

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• If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that's because, of course, oil is traded on a global market.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Opportunity, Oil, United States

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• The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  People, Population, Half

  "Shakespeare had no BlackBerry and Aristotle mananged without an iPhone" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2009.

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• I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

  Vanilla Ice

  Shining, Black, Stuff

  "Is this it?". Interview with Alex Rayner, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2007.

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• When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

  Curtis Jackson

  Song, Artist, Tape

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• In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, People, France

  "Karl Lagerfeld Defends Fur, Skinny People". The Telegraph Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2009.

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• It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Kids, Married, Corny

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Crush, Falling In Love, Educational

  "V-Va-Va-Voom!" by Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2010.

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