Cent Quotes
401 quotes by 354 authors
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In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played…
— T.E. Lawrence
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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you…
— Raymond Chandler
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My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being devoured. I've never been particularly social,…
— Sean Connery
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I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying it,…
— Steve Irwin
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Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.
— Dale Carnegie
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Every cent that goes to research is changing the lives of patients and their families right now.
— Robert Pattinson
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One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into…
— Gary Hamel
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I only mean forty per cent of what I say.
— Marlon Brando
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You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who…
— Archie Panjabi
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No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models predict that new…
— Atul Gawande
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More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid…
— Winston Churchill
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In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.
— David Tang
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That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see…
— Bill Klem
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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per…
— Agnes Smedley
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Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple…
— Simon Barnes
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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't…
— Boris Johnson
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In the 1970s and a lot of the 1980s, we would have thanked our lucky stars in the coalfield areas for growth of 1.75 per…
— Dennis Skinner
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If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at…
— David Ricardo
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