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929 quotes by 784 authors
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If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use…
— Tim Ferriss
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Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The…
— Ray Bradbury
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If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged
— Terry Pratchett
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You thought I would not weesh to marry him? Or per'aps you hoped?" said Fleur, her nostrils flaring. "What do I care how he looks?…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.
— M.C. Escher
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The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.
— Don DeLillo
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The Smythe-Smith musicale. Thankfully, it came around just once per year, because Hyacinth was quite certain it would take a full twelve months for her…
— Julia Quinn
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I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk a gallon of…
— Rick Riordan
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I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per…
— Joel Salatin
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The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real…
— Jodi Picoult
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It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass…
— Graham Hancock
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A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown…
— Tom Robbins
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PracÂtice doesn’t make perÂfect. It makes betÂter.
— Frank Peretti
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We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example,…
— Milton Friedman
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- "Women should all move to Amazonia, or at least vacation there four times a year." - "Amazonia?" - "It's the girl world in my…
— Nora Roberts
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I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called…
— Aberjhani
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When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men…
— Joss Whedon
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I'm off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this…
— Stephen Colbert
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