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Tag Name "Pounds" (526)

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Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.
Etta James
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Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
Lewis Carroll
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Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials get rid of every pound of material you can do without put to yourself the question what business has it to be there?, avoid complexities, and make everything as simple as possible.
Henry Maudslay
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Letting agencies are unregulated. They charge a search fee, which in some cases can run into several hundred pounds, but the search consists of no more than checking through a computer database to see whether they have any properties for that person.
Jeremy Corbyn
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An ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day.
Louise Jordan Miln
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Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.
Thomas Starr King
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All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.
Sarah McLachlan
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I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion.
Jennifer Weiner
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Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.
Stewart Udall
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Is winning the Open worth a million pounds? Well, it's worthwhile winning it - I would recommend it to anybody!
Sandy Lyle
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Faint heart never won fair lady! Nothing venture, nothing win Blood is thick, but water's thin In for a penny, in for a pound It's Love that makes the world go 'round!
W. S. Gilbert
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If love could be purchased, everybody would have paid a thousand dollars a pound for it. You know it doesn't work that way.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.
Nick Carter
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A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.
John Ray
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Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds [when they meet me].
Khloe Kardashian
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A woman in Germany gave birth to a 13 1/2 pound baby. That baby was so fat his first word was strudel.
Craig Ferguson
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Ezra Pound
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At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.
Joseph Lancaster
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I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really big weighing around 350 pounds.
Richard Kiel
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I'm the kind of person to wait until I've gained ten pounds to start exercising.
Yasmine Bleeth
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
Brendan Behan
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Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.
James M. Cain
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I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd like to have the most enormous library, and I'd like to think that I could read those books forever and forever, and die unlamented, unknown, unsung, unhonored - and packed with information.
Richard Francis Burton
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