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«Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each. (Quarter=two bits)»
Author: Charles A. Jaffe
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bits, bits and pieces, cut into, descended, fractions, prices, quoted, Spanish
«I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.»
Author: Jerry Gillies
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a million times, bits, circuits, handling, most-valuable, procrastinate, procrastinated, procrastinating, short circuit, turned out, weeks
«Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities»
Author: Joan Delano Aiken
(Writer)
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bard, bards, bits, instruments, race problem, the bard, wile, wiles
«It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.»
«Joe Fox: Brinkley is my dog. He loves the streets of New York as much as I do. Although he likes to eat bits of pizza and bagels off the sidewalk and I prefer to buy them.»
«It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us, we can dodge an elephant, but we can't a fly»
«Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.»
«If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But only if you're serious about adopting the vulture.»
«My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bits, whirl, whirled, whirling, whirls
«The body-village is filled to overflowing with sexual desire and anger, which were broken into bits when I met with the Holy Saint. By pre-ordained destiny, I have met with the Guru.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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bits, ordained, overflowing, overflowing with, sexual desire
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