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Letter "C" » cent
«The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream»
«What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.»
«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)
| Keywords:
cent, cravings, economy, global, Global economy, PER, per cent, population, supplying
«What can we do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Ocean one inch neare»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
cent, cheerless, coast, harbor, inch, Pacific, Pacific Coast, Pacific Ocean, Public place, public treasury, rockbound, the Pacific, The Western, Treasuries, treasury, uninviting, Western
«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
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertisements, cent, editorial, editorials, pages, PER, per cent, readers
«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»
«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 makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent / for every effect a perfect cause / and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
affinity, cent, common cause, merchant, Old Road, One Pound, sense of purpose
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