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• Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and this is still the case. Our ill fortune has long been a matter of bad governance. And now things have changed.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Country, Children, Long

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• If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.

  Jello Biafra

  Running, Ideas, Lucky

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• Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8  months of last year was 42.3 per cent above the corresponding period the year previous, and our total trade with Asia was up 13.5 per cent. For the first time since 1919, the United States in the first 8 months of 1956 accounted for less than 60 percent of our total trade.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Years, Europe, Progress

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• If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Creativity, People, Poverty

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• I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good.

  Halle Berry

  Nice, Character, Feel Good

  "Blazing a Trail With Halle's Comet". The Northern Echo, March 27, 2004.

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• If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Dollars, Pay

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.19, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• People will pay for great services. They said they wouldn't pay 99 cents for a song but they did. We've always believed that. When you go to work, you don't work for free; nobody works for free. Nobody can say, "I want to work for free." Nobody says that.

  Eddy Cue

  Song, People, Want

  "Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue Talk Filling the 'Hole' With Apple Music". Interview with Steve Knopper, www.rollingstone.com. June 8, 2015.

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• The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.

  Burton Silverman

  Effort, Energy, Finishing

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• Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Ninety, My Time, Five

  "Surfing the Universe" by Benjamin Wallace-Wells, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.

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• Getting picked gives you half that confidence, or 50 per cent of it

  Glenn Frank

  Giving, Half

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• Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Twenties, Sound, Three

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• Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me.

  Arjun Rampal

  Battle, Body, Needs

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• The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

  Alan Coren

  Today, Useless, Cigarette

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.183, Canongate Books

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• Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra, a fact that is evident from the alternatives they tend to offer to public prevention of private abuses. For example: if you don’t like working a hundred hours a week for twenty-five cents a day, then find another employer! It is obvious to intelligent people, if not libertarians, that more generous employers will price themselves out of a market whose standards are set by the most rapacious.

  Michael Lind

  Intelligent, Light, People

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• We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Dollars, Hours, Minutes

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1840). “The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville ...”, p.17

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• Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

  O. Henry

  Medicine, Funeral, Patient

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.401, Delphi Classics

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• Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

  Claude Monet

  Elements, Painting, Ninety

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• I want a career and the thing is you really have to love acting. I didn't just fall into it and it wasn't just something I was good at. I've had to really work at this. I've had to fall on my face time and time again. You get 'no' 99 per cent of the time and a 'yes' just once.

  Channing Tatum

  Fall, Careers, Acting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Two, The End Of The Day, Actors

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Une ample Come  die a'   cent actes divers, Et dont la sce'  ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Different, Comedy, Hundred

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• The 99 Cent Only Store is calling itself your Valentine's Day headquarters. Guys, if that's your Valentine's Day headquarters, you can also call the garage your new home.

  Jay Leno

  Valentine, Home, Guy

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• What's missing is the music. I'd like to rant on and on about the music, the mechanics of it. It's what I think about 90 per cent of the day. I don't think about getting high all the time. I guess I do think about sex a lot, though...

  Brian Molko

  Sex, Thinking, Missing

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• I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Years, Two

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.243

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• You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmative.Don't mess with mister inbetween.

  Johnny Mercer

  Latches, Mess, Affirmative

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• From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.

  Harold Wilson

  Mean, Pockets, Purses

  Ministerial broadcast, 19 November 1967, in 'The Times' 20 November 1967

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