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I stole every nickel, dime and dollar and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and bask on all the worlds most famous beaches.
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I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman and child in America to see it!


— 1946  Of  The BestYears of Our Lives. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (9th edn, 1989).

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There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel

franklin pierce adams

— Reported in Jacob Morton Braude, Complete Speaker's and Toastmaster's Library: Remarks of famous people (1965), p. 53.

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Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International nickel Company?

tommy douglas

— Debate, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939

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At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel.

tommy douglas

— Debate, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939

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We can't even reform the way we make pennies and nickels. This week we learn that making a penny now costs 2 cents and making a nickel costs 9 cents, which makes no sense.

bill maher

— YouTube video, May 14, 2010.

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Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

larry wall

— Usenet article (1992)

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I walked into a honky tonk just the other day. I put a nickel in the jukebox just to hear it play.


— "Juke Box Blues", written by Maybelle Carter and Helen Carter, famously sung by June Carter Cash

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