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• Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, War, History

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• Don't worry, now that I know about your little ego problem, I'll do my best to look all gushy when you pound you chest.

  Christine Feehan

  Ego Problem, Worry, Littles

  Christine Feehan (2003). “Shadow Game”, p.257, Penguin

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• With Browns' ticket prices what they are, you just know that all those dads who brought the entire family to sit in the 'dog pound' are secretly calculating how much blood they're going to have to sell next week to put groceries on the table.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Dog, Dad

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• Access to supercomputers. The science is well ahead of our ability to implement it. It's quite clear that if we could run our models at a higher resolution we could do a much better job-tomorrow-in terms of our seasonal and decadal predictions. It's so frustrating. We keep saying we need four times the computing power. We're talking just 10 or 20 million a year-dollars or pounds-which is tiny compared to the damage done by disasters. Yet it's a difficult argument to win.

  Julia Slingo

  Running, Jobs, Winning

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• For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.

  Steve King

  Memorable, Marijuana, People

  "Rep. Steve King Slams Norquist Over Attacks on Immigration". Interview with Todd Beamon and John Bachman, www.newsmax.com. July 18, 2013.

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• If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction....Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person.

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Creative, Opponents

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• I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, "I feel fat." Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, "Oh, I look like a woman." And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, 'cause I loved it.

  Christina Hendricks

  Beautiful, Confidence, Mom

  "Christina Hendricks: Curvy, confident, gorgeous". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.cnn.com. July 6, 2010.

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• The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of an engineer's calculations as are the symbols indicating feet, minutes, pounds, or gallons. ... This statement, while true in regard to the work of all engineers, applies particularly to that of the mechanical engineer.

  Henry R. Towne

  Feet, Dollars, Economics

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• That pipe, just so happens to lead to the room where I make the most delicious flavored chocolate covered fudge." Then he will be made into strawberry flavoered chocolate covered fudge, they'll be selling him by the pound, all over the world!" No, I wouldn't allow it. The taste would be terrible. Can you imagine Augustus flavored chocolate covered gloop? Ew. No one would buy it.

  Johnny Depp

  Chocolate, Would Be, Fudge

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• Then someone started pounding on the door. And not a little "Hey, what's up?" pound. Like there was a big sale on door pounds down at the Pound Outlet. Buy one, get one free at Pounds-n-Stuff. --Being the Journal of Abby Normal

  Christopher Moore

  Doors, Hey, Littles

  Christopher Moore (2010). “Bite Me”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.

  Stevie Nicks

  Inspiring, Sexy, Women

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• I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled suntan lotion spread over 2,100 pounds of hot flesh. I have been addressed as "Mon" in three different nations. I have seen 500 upscale Americans dance the Electric Slide. I have seen sunsets that looked computer-enhanced. I have (very briefly) joined a conga line.

  David Foster Wallace

  Beach, Sunset, Blue

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• If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Banking, Problem, Economic

  The Economist, p. 11, February 13, 1982.

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• The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Zero, Numbers, Tennis

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.183, Scholastic UK

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• It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

  Charles Dickens

  Evil, Hatred, Vices

  Charles Dickens (2001). “Hard Times”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• And you, my best friend on earth, my soul sister who shares Chunky Monkey scoops and beefcake e-mails at the drop of a hat, the woman who made me wear a frothy, ruffled lime-colored bridesmaid dress that added fifteen pounds to my hips, are going to spill your guts to me, aren’t you? (Sunshine) No fair and the dress wasn’t lime, it was mint. (Selena) It was lime-icky green and I looked like a sick pistachio. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Sick, Soul

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.220, Macmillan

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• I wasn't sure exactly how prostitutes determined price, but if men bought hookers by the pound, these two would be doing okay.

  Janet Evanovich

  Men, Two, Would Be

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Howie's doctor told him to lose ten pounds, and since Howie's been on a diet he's gained three.

  Janet Evanovich

  Doctors, Three, Diets

  Janet Evanovich (1989). “Back to the Bedroom”, Loveswept

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• One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

  Connie Willis

  Dog, Morning, Past

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.210, Bantam

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• I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.

  Suzanne Collins

  Glasses, Beverages, Ignore Me

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.451, Scholastic Inc.

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• When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

  A. E. Housman

  Wise, Heart, Men

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 13

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• Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price

  Winston Churchill

  Sleep, Thinking, Kind

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• Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire.

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Couple, Vampire

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.101, Penguin

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• If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?

  Hudson Taylor

  Should Have, Too Much, Christ

  "Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall". Book by A.J. Broomhall (p. 6), 1982.

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• The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.

  Emily Dickinson

  Blue, Sea, Sky

  Emily Dickinson (2009). “The Pocket Emily Dickinson”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

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