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• Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

  Clement Attlee

  Genius, Fifty, Fool

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• Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.

  Anita Roddick

  Believe, Ninety Nine, Way

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• Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

  Shiv Khera

  Goal, People, Three

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• At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Education, Disappointment, Wall

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• money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth.

  Olivia Mellan

  Money, Emotional, Self Worth

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• A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.

  Achim Steiner

  Country, Keys, Effort

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• What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

  Eugene Field

  Men, Smell, Smoking

  Eugene Field (1900). “The Tribune Primer”

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• When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.

  Paula Fox

  Block, Paris, Glasses

  Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup of coffee. The key is to 'position' yourself in your market as the expert, the resource, the only person your prospect would ever even THINK of doing business with, or referring to others.

  Bob Burg

  Coffee, Thinking, Keys

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• Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

  Arnold Bennett

  Love, Investment, Five

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• Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Nursing, Occupation, Chance

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• Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.

  Ann Landers

  Morning, Writing, Names

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• I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find any voice teacher that could teach me to sing like Lead Belly I'd spend every cent to study under him." But every time you'd go to a voice teacher, he'd teach you to warble, as if you'd want to be an opera singer, and that's not what I'm interested in.

  Pete Seeger

  Teacher, Voice, Lessons

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money.

  Bill Lipschutz

  Hands, Traders, More Money

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• Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.

  Louis Rukeyser

  Twenties, Fifteen, Stamps

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• A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN's annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Years, Data

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.

  David Lee Roth

  Guitar, Two, Tight Pants

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• Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded - and people now use half the world's readily accessible freshwater runoff.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Running, Two, Rivers

  "The Sixth Extinction?" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

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• I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.

  Jill Sobule

  Records, Enough, Made

  "Sponsor Jill Sobule's album, get a spot on it". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2009.

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• Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.

  Barbara Holland

  Lonely, Jobs, Loss

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• Bloody Jackson - he can land it on a 20 cent piece. Trouble is, it's usually in a bloke's pocket in the grandstand.

  Craig Coleman

  Rugby League, Land, Pockets

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• There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Thinking, Quality

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• Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.

  Henry Adams

  Editing, Flesh, Pages

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.189, Harvard University Press

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• Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Ignorance, Mean, Fifty

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• The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Unique, Cities, Toronto

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