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• Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

  Stephen Fry

  Intelligent, People, Comedy

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• If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.

  Al Gore

  Sky, Oil, Discovery

  "What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?". Interview With John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

  Richard E. Grant

  Challenges, Ongoing, Fields

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• I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Heart, Sleep, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

  Garrett Hardin

  Taken, Growth, Population

  Garrett James Hardin (1972). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”, Viking Adult

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• I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Goal, Target

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2009.

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• Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

  Stephen Hawking

  Forever, Expanding, Observation

  "10 Questions for Stephen Hawking". Time Magazine Interview, content.time.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.

  Suze Orman

  Mortgage, Fixed

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• Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.

  Suze Orman

  Hurt, People, Balance

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• I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Birth Defects, Dimes, Research

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• Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

  George Osborne

  Believe, Rich, Taxpayers

  "Tories raise alarm as George Osborne ends child benefit for all" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

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• A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

  Ron Paul

  Sound, Saving, Credit

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

  Mike Pence

  Data, Historical, Income

  Interview with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.

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• Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

  Mike Pence

  Cutting, Reality, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

  Matthew Perry

  School, Men, Able

  "Man to Man: Matthew Perry". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. September 11, 2012.

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• I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.

  Rick Perry

  Mean, Differences, Community

  "SQUAWK BOX" with John Harwood, www.cnbc.com. October 25, 2011.

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• If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

  Steven Pinker

  People, Important, Warfare

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• It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.

  Steven Pinker

  Fighting, Men, Numbers

  "A History of Violence" by Steven Pinker, newrepublic.com. March 19, 2007.

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• It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.

  David Plouffe

  Country, People, Doe

  "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2011.

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• By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

  John Podhoretz

  Cutting, Class, Levels

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• Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

  Colin Powell

  Moving, Issues, Unemployment

  "Colin Powell reflects on endorsing Obama in 2008". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.

  Lucy Powell

  Party, Voting, Democracy

  "Postal voting: easy does it" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2008.

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• Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.

  Basil Rathbone

  August, Week, Let Me

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• Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety. At any rate that afforded me some comfort.

  Milan Kundera

  Silence, Comfort, Stories

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta.

  William Gibson

  Block, Home, White

  William Gibson (2016). “Neuromancer”, p.35, Hachette UK

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