Cents Quotes - Page 21

• Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.

  Christofer Drew

  Cost, Pressure, Currency

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• The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.

  David Harvey

  People, Population, Income

  David Harvey (2013). “Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom”, p.58, Columbia University Press

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• The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.

  Ellen Willis

  War, Kids, Jail

  Ellen Willis (2012). “No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays”, p.250, U of Minnesota Press

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• If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market.

  Ilana Mercer

  Men, Skills, Long

  "Barack Against The Boys". www.wnd.com. March 13, 2009.

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• They wanna know why, I'm so fly, a girl asked me for a ring and I put one around her whole eye I'm looking nothing like ya poppa, I wouldn't give a chick ten cents, to put cheese on a whopper.

  Big L

  Girl, Eye, Giving

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• Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!

  Maurice Duplessis

  Twenties, Fifteen, Ottawa

  Bill 43, Québec Legislative Assembly, January 14, 1954.

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• All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a standard type of text was produced, which is found in the vast majority of the manuscripts that have come down to us. At least ninety-six per cent of the extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are later than the eighth century; and of those only a handful preserve traces of the other types of text which were in existence before the adoption of the standard text, and out of which it was created.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Adoption, Greek, Six

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 39, 1949.

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• Virtually, Finnish woods are stripped so bare, so sold out and first and foremost, so long way off from genuine diverse natural forest, that the resources of language will not permit excessive words. Finnish forest economy has been compared to the ravaging of rain forests. Nevertheless, the noteworthy difference is that there is a half or two thirds left from rain forests, but from Finnish forests there is left - excluding arctic Lapland - 0,6 per cent.

  Pentti Linkola

  Rain, Two, Differences

  "The Forest Covering Must Be Restored In Finland". Essay by Pentti Linkola, 1995.

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• That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Country, Years, Population

  Speech delivered at Nagpur University Convocation on 5th December 1936, "Educational Speeches" by Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, A.Mukherjee & Co. (Private) Ltd., 2 College Square, Kolkata 700 012, 1959.

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• [I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

  Mark Twain

  House, Speak, Unchristian

  Mark Twain (1992). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869”, p.471, Univ of California Press

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• Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue was about £1.4bn, 40 per cent more than its nearest rival, Italy's Serie A. That was before take-off. Now foreign television channels are sending so much cash that the Premiership is expected to take in nearly £1.8bn this season. Even the team that finishes bottom of the table (Wigan might be a good bet) will get £26.8m from TV. That's more than all of Argentine or Belgian football put together.

  Simon Kuper

  Soccer, Country, Football

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• I worked for [Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee] Tommy Hunter. It was a wonderful training program at the CBC, because they made sure they never paid you very much, so you had to do a lot of things, and that way you made some money. [A phone rings.] That's my agent right now telling me I've got a 13 cent residual from Tommy Hunter in 1969.

  Alan Thicke

  Country, Phones, Cbc

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• [On leaving the U.S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound and thought-bound in this land of dollars and cents.

  Harriet Hosmer

  Land, Leaving, Soul

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• People who are successful should never forget that its 90 per cent luck. Youve got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - Blankety Blank, the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

  Terry Wogan

  Successful, Winning, Awards

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• I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

  Colm Meaney

  Home, Cooking

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• Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.

  Jessica Marais

  Motherhood

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• We have an overdraft with the earth something in excess of 130 per cent. We currently consume something like 30 per cent over and above what we are replacing and rather like an overdraft at a bank that can't go on.

  Michael Meacher

  Growth, Excess, Goes On

  "Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.

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• I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Jobs, Flower, Clothes

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Fifteen, Cigar

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• As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

  James E. Faust

  Jobs, Home, Men

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• I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs. 50 cents per walk, per dog, and that accumulated quickly. I bought a camera, a telescope. I taught myself astrophotography. I did all this.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dog, Cameras, Telescopes

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.

  William Easterly

  Children, Book, Medicine

  William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.11, Penguin

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• Stamford Bridge holds 42,000. So ten per cent of that would be about 4.1 thousand

  Mike Parry

  Bridges, Would Be, Thousand

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• For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.

  Alex Berenson

  Couple, Sunday, Age

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• When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy.

  Meek Mill

  Song, Growing Up, Track

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