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«Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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Funny
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«We willingly pay 30,000 - 40,000 fatalities per year for the advantages of individual transportation by automobile»
Author: John von Neumann
(Mathematician)
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advantages, automobile, fatalities, fatality, PER, per year, transportation, willingly
«Now I get docked 10 to 20 per cent (of my appearance fee) if I don't yell at some people and break at least one racquet.»
«No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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activities, assigning, deploy, deployed, farming, full time, gathering, maintenance, one-woman, One on One, PER, productive, raising, simultaneously, suburban, temple, tent, weaving
«The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
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cent, cravings, economy, global, Global economy, PER, per cent, population, supplying
«The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of teo per cent of the world's population.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
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cent, cravings, economy, global, Global economy, PER, per cent, population, supplying
«There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.»
Author: David Ogilvy
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Advertising
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advertisements, cent, editorial, editorials, pages, PER, per cent, readers
«The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.»
«The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings him»
«Surely you do not disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine per»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
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Books
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adventures, benefit, bringing, disbelieve, disbelieved, disbelieves, disbelieving, escapes, managed, PER, Prophecies, sole, suppose
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