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929 quotes by 811 authors
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You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.
— Warren Buffett
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It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that…
— Warren Buffett
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Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the result of the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Ha, some days ago the same people were one hundred per cent sure that I'd signed for Red Bull! So much for that.
— Kimi Raikkonen
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How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?
— Andrea Dworkin
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I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom…
— Roy Jenkins
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We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty…
— Caryl Churchill
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The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
— Carla Bruni
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The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather,…
— Hermann Broch
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Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a…
— George Best
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We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation.…
— Kathleen Sebelius
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You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to…
— Richard Yates
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I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to…
— Richard Krajicek
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The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation…
— Michael Porter
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Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or…
— James Kelman
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Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
— Mary Lou Retton
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Many complain of a chronic weariness that sleep will not banish. Their trouble is that too little blood is pumped through the body per minute;…
— Gene Tunney
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As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue…
— Dean Kamen
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It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at…
— John Money
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