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• ...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.

  Gordon Brown

  Years, People, Water

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• ...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific debate among serious people who've looked at the science...Well, I guess in some quarters, there's still a debate over whether the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona, or whether the Earth is flat instead of round.

  Al Gore

  Science, Moon, People

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• Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.

  Gough Whitlam

  Memorable, Years, Australia

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• Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.

  William H. Gass

  Literature, Crafts, Pennies

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• They get to the quarter-finals, Bill, I'll show up with a dress on

  Eamon Dunphy

  Memorable, Dresses, Finals

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• Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters.

  F. R. Scott

  Procrastination, Done, Half

  F.R. Scott (2013). “Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground: The Poetry of F.R. Scott”, p.54, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for a quarter. But not in a hostile way, just for giggles. They really are on the attack against mankind; it's a disease. They should be helped somewhere. But I'd still like to poke them with a stick.

  Sean Penn

  Photography, Thinking, Disease

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• Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Mind

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.83, 谷月社

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• Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather than through the economies of Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Russia, Iran, Years

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• We have already used more than half of that budget. This means that three quarters of the fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground, and the fossil fuels we do use must be utilized sparingly and responsibly.

  Christiana Figueres

  Mean, Fossils, Three

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• So put a quarter in your ass
  Cuz ya played ya'self

  Big Daddy Kane

  Self, Hip Hop, Cuz

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• According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually

  Bill McKibben

  Growth, Balance, Research

  "Money ? Happiness. QED." by Bill McKibben, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2007.

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• The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Environmental, Unhappy

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• The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?

  Bob Brown

  Reality, Lucky, Environment

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• Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Size, Problem

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Funny, Friendship, Dog

  Ernest Thompson Seton (1905). “Animal Heroes”

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• Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Believe, Iran

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.128, Soft Skull Press

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• I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.

  Horton Foote

  People, World, Faces

  Horton Foote (1989). “Cousins ; And, The Death of Papa: The Final Two Plays of The Orphans' Home Cycle”, p.13, Grove Press

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• I think we shot the ball very well tonight, we just didn't get stops when we needed to. They hit 11 3-pointers in the third quarter. Sometimes when one person gets hot, everybody's hot.

  Shawn Marion

  Thinking, Hot, Balls

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• You've worked hard all your life. You've paid Medicare taxes for almost 30 years. But under the Republican plan, Medicare won't be there for you. Instead of Medicare as it exists now, under the Republican plan you'll get a voucher that will pay as little as half your Medicare costs when you turn 65—and as little as a quarter in your 80s. And all so that millionaires and billionaires can have a huge tax cut.

  David Frum

  Cutting, Years, Cost

  "The Coming Democratic Attack Barrage". www.thedailybeast.com. August 11, 2012.

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• Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.

  Henry George

  Book, Men, Fire

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.381, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.

  Saul Bellow

  Strong, Sleep, Eight

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• How many years have slipped through our hands?
At least as many as the constellations we still can identify.
The quarter moon, like a light skiff,
                                                         floats out of the mist-remnants
Of last night’s hard rain.
It, too, will slip through our fingers
                                                        with no ripple, without us in it.

  Charles Wright

  Rain, Moon, Night

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• Ever since I first visited New Orleans back in '89, I've been intrigued by the French Quarter. I always wanted to set something in the Quarter, whether it was historic or contemporary. Unfortunately, I was always tied up with previous commitments - earlier multiple contracts - and could not get a crack at it.

  Robert Asprin

  Commitment, New Orleans, French Quarter

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• What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Friendship, Real, Funny Friend

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