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You must be poor. why? cuz ur not making any cents!

Lisi Harrison

Cuz, Poor

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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Warren Buffett

Life, Thinking, Helping Others

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But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.’ Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

Ray Bradbury

Art, Book, Ninety Nine

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

William Faulkner

Two, Long, People

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I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

Charles M. Schulz

Feelings, Deep Feeling, Please

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I want to be liked... No, I want to be more than just liked... I want people to say, "that Charlie Brown is a great guy!" And when people are at parties, I want them to look for me, and when I finally arrive, I want them to say, "here comes good ol' Charlie Brown... Now everything will be all right!" I want to be a special person... I want to be needed... It's kind of hard to explain... Do you understand? I mean, do you know what I'm talking about?" "Sure, I understand perfectly..." "Well?" "Forget it! Five cents, please!

Charles M. Schulz

Party, Mean, Talking

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I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!

Charles M. Schulz

Nice, Trying, Better Person

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Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

Ray Bradbury

Book, Ninety Nine, Average

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor

Beauty, Beautiful, Thinking

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What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

M. C. Escher

Life, Beautiful, Artist

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The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

Ha-Joon Chang

Growth, Top 10, Population

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Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death.

J.A. Konrath

Race, August, Ice

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He hadn't a cent in his pocket, but he had faith !

Paulo Coelho

Pockets

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Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.

Jerry Pate

Art, Golf, What Matters

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No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

Herbert Hoover

Men, Presidential, Dollars

Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”

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In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.

Laurie Garrett

Age, Care, Disease

Laurie Garrett (2003). “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health”, p.9

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Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.

Ronald Reagan

Country, Dollars, Taxation

Ronald Reagan (1981). “Rendezvous with destiny”, Osmond Pub Co

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Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple of centuries did we invent industry. We are a species that has spent 99 per cent of its history as hunter-gatherers. We haven't had time for our unconscious minds and our unconscious needs to have changed. If you like, our souls have not changed, and this is true whether or not we believe that we have them.

Simon Barnes

Couple, Believe, Years

Simon Barnes (2008). “How to be Wild”, p.39, Short Books

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Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. I make 50 cents for showing up, he liked to joke, and the other 50 cents is based on performance.

Walter Isaacson

Jobs, Two, Apples

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

Giving, Dollars, Clean

Scott Westerfeld (2007). “The Last Days”, p.62, Penguin

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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

Boris Johnson

Journey, Want, London

"Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch", www.london-se1.co.uk. July 30, 2010.

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In the 1970s and a lot of the 1980s, we would have thanked our lucky stars in the coalfield areas for growth of 1.75 per cent. The only thing growing then were the lines of coke in front of boy George and the rest of them.

Dennis Skinner

Stars, Boys, Growth

Dennis Skinner during House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. December 8, 2005.

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If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.

David Ricardo

Land, Pieces, May

David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.42

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Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.

Selima Hill

Talent, Obsession, Invisible

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I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.

Jimmy Carter

Jobs, Labor Force, Salary

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