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«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.»
«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, anyway, but if I've ever been rude, fifty per cent of it has usually been provoked by other people's attitudes. Though I do admit, like most Celts, I'm moody. It's fine until people try to cheer you up with gems like, 'snap out of it' or 'Come on, now'.»
«Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment»
«The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.»
«The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of teo per cent of the world's population.»
«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.»
«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»
«I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.»
«He that sells upon Credit, expects to lose 5 per Cent. by bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.»