"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated."
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"Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat."
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"Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day."
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"Come around, feel the sound. Know you make my heart pound. Fill me up, bring me down; when I hear your sound."
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"An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment."
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"Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."
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"An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught."
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"The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated."
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"An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity."
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"I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don’t see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil."
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"How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me."
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"After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second."
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"Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds."
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"The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'"
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"All you need is a bad angle and suddenly youre 30 pounds overweight."
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"The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling."
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"Even if I'm hormonal and I feel like I've got a couple pounds of water weight, I will never starve myself, I will never, ever go on a diet."
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"The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer."
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"Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life."
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"Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year."
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