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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
«There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(Orator, Politician)
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cottage, cottages, descended, inferior, mansion, stately
«The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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chain, commandment, descended, emphasis, endlessly, generations, murder, murderers, ours
«So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them: / And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.»
«Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell? / Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.»
«Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: / And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.»
«While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.»
«The idea that we are physical beings descended from primeval cells in nutrient soups, that idea does violence to my intuition, stomps all over it with football-shoes. The idea that we are descended from a jealous God who formed us out of dust to choo»
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