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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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• As for the Folsom Prison show, ... would anybody have the guts to do that show now 50 Cent, maybe I think the whole idea of even playing to a crowd of people like that is so politically unfavorable now - it's like, 'What are you doing, singing for these people Do they deserve it' There's such anger in our culture right now, that kind of grace and forgiveness, we don't see that very often.

  James Mangold

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.

  David Ogilvy

  Ideas, Ineffable, Used

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• I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

  Stewart Udall

  Horse, School, Hands

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• I had over-trained. I put too much pressure on myself because I wanted that gold medal too much. If I had trained 15 per cent less, I would have won. I was training like a crazy person. There was a lack of self-confidence and a lack of maturity. An athlete does not only train with his body. He trains with his mind.

  Hicham El Guerrouj

  Crazy, Athlete, Self Confidence

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• I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.

  Henry Ford

  Art, Giving, World

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• The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know about tactics, technique and training, but if he cannot win the confidence and comradeship of his pupils he will never be a good coach

  Franz Stampfl

  Sports, Jobs, Winning

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• My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Dad, Men

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• During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. By the end of the war, the deficit had risen to $2.61 billion. That money had to come from somewhere.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Government, Years

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• Steve Nicol never gives more than 120 per cent.

  Kevin Keegan

  Giving

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• The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

  Tony Abbott

  Real, Believe, People

  "Town of Beaufort changed Tony Abbott's view on climate change" by Stuart Rintoul, www.theaustralian.com.au. December 12, 2009.

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• My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

  Marc Anthony

  Mum, Wells, Partnering

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

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• You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Your Time, Causes, Common

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• Ha, some days ago the same people were one hundred per cent sure that I'd signed for Red Bull! So much for that.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  People, Bulls, Red

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• I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy.

  Roy Jenkins

  Thinking, Choices, Democracy

  "Inflation fight goes on, Mr Jenkins tells left". The Times, January 24, 1976.

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• We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.

  Caryl Churchill

  Cheer, Ninety Nine, Doe

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• I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

  Carla Bruni

  Talking, World, Interviews

  "Carla Bruni's revealing interview before she married President Nicolas Sarkozy" by Graham Brough, www.mirror.co.uk. March 29, 2008.

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• Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a star player.

  George Best

  Stars, Fighting, Player

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• You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so believe me, buddy, you've got nothing to apologize for.

  Richard Yates

  Sweet, Jobs, Nice

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• The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no use for clocks or appointments. It comes and goes as it pleases in our memory, camping out wherever the hell it damn well wants to in there. Untrustworthy, prone to exaggeration, biased- you wouldn't lend it ten cents, but it *sure* can be charming and seductive when it feels like it.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Brother, Memories, Past

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• Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense

  Roger Waters

  Perfect, Dollars, Pounds

  Song: Perfect Sense, Part II

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• I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Father, Life Is, Written

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• It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Believe

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• There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .

  Angelo Dundee

  Attitude, Thinking, Negative

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• Each cent you apply toward diminishing your debt replenishes you.

  Suze Orman

  Debt

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