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• One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Educational, School, People

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• There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Money, Gold, Twenties

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. "An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 345, 1732.

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• If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Loyalty, Loyal Customers, Inspirational Customer Service

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Helping Others, World, Aids

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• Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

  Phil Ochs

  Girlfriend, America, Leaving

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

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• If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

  Richard Henry Lee

  4th Of July, Nineteen, May

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• An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wit, Prudence, Cleverness

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián, Maxim 92, 1647.

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• A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

  Johnny Carson

  Fun, Islands, Turkeys

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• They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.

  William John Wills

  Travel, Two, Next

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• After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Real, Smart

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• When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.

  Woody Allen

  Honesty, Weight Loss, Humanity

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

  Ezra Pound

  Ideas, Energy, Vortex

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• If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Money, Needs

  Ezra Pound, Timothy Materer (1991). “The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn: 1915–1924”, p.2, Duke University Press

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• In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.

  John Ray

  Law, Thousand

  "A Collection of English Proverbs".

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• Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Giving, Rubies

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 13

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• Saying "I'll start managing my money as soon as I get caught up" is like an overweight person saying "I'll start exercising and dieting as soon as I lose twenty pounds."

  T. Harv Eker

  Exercise, Secret, Twenties

  "Q&A: T. Harv Eker Talks Money, Debt and Breaking Bad Habits". CreditCards.com interview, www.foxbusiness.com. April 3, 2012.

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• The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Nature, Humble, Ambition

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.138, e-artnow

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• And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Brain, Three

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• The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although that extraordinary number is of the same order of magnitude as the number of stars in the Milky Way, it cannot account for the complexity of the brain. The liver probably contains 100 million cells, but 1,000 livers do not add up to a rich inner life.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Stars, Cells, Order

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• The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
  He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
  And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
  And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.
  Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
  The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
  And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
  But there is no joy in Mudville, mighty Casey has struck out.

  Ernest Thayer

  Summer, Children, Hate

  Ernest Lawrence Thayer (2007). “Casey at the Bat: The Billion Dollar Contract”, p.4, Benchmark Education Company

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• I'm a cat person. I have two giant cats [Harry and Arturo] that I call the small panthers. They're like 17 pounds each-they're big boys! Every photo on my phone is of them doing something funny.

  Dave Franco

  Cat, Boys, Phones

  "Discovery Dave Franco" by Alexandra Mack, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2009.

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• Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of it in your veins. The pound of it in your head. The volume of it in a human body; the sickness when you've spilled it.

  Janet Morris

  Death, Blood, Long

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.6, Paradise Publishing

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• When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Nfl, Linemen

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• I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy, and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Sexy, Guy, Weight

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• Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don't forget indigestion. I wasn't different from anyone else: There sat the 18-pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Thanksgiving, Suicide, Children

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