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• Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

  Linda Chavez

  Data, President, Literature

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• According to a recent study, ten percent of 'Star Trek' fans meet the psychological criteria for addiction. Deprived of their favourite show, some Trekkies disply withdrawal symptoms similar to drug addicts. Of course, the real difference is that drug addicts aren't nearly as annoying.

  Jay Leno

  Stars, Real, Differences

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• The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

  Sherrod Brown

  Struggle, Average, Income

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• It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

  Charlie Haden

  Struggle, Creativity, Creative

  "Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.

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• Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.

  Grace Napolitano

  Reform, Able, Social

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• Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.

  Bruce Kovner

  Risk, Novices, Classic

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• Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.

  Kanye West

  Looks, Egomaniacs, Good Times

  "Kanye West admits he looks miserable 90% of the time - see his 13 grumpiest faces here" by Issy Sampson, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2013.

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• Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

  Walter Gilbert

  Errors, Literature, Common

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• Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Dumb, Reader

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• A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Impact, Addiction, Alcohol

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• Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

  Silvan Shalom

  Suicide, Numbers, Bombers

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• In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.

  Nicholas Ray

  Opposites, Theatre, Twenties

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• About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Light, Oil, Car

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• We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?

  Ann Romney

  Thinking, Years, Giving

  "Ann Romney: We’ve Given ‘All You People Need To Know’ About Family Finances", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2012.

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• To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

  Judith Crist

  Two, Style, Three

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• Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment thats 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.

  Denise Juneau

  Children, Home, School

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• I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.

  Brad Bird

  Wish, Lists, Schedules

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• In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

  Tavis Smiley

  School, Boys, Black

  "Education an economic issue?". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in that position. And I'm also careful. I save 38 percent of my earnings after expenses, before taxes.

  David Duval

  Mean, Lucky, Want

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• If I were going to put my money on it, I would bet that by 2050—hopefully earlier—we’ll have found that more than 80 percent of all human cancer is caused by infection.

  Paul W. Ewald

  Cancer, Found, Infection

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• Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that postmenopausal women who were put on statin drugs to lower their cholesterol had a nearly 48 percent increased risk of developing diabetes compared to those who weren’t given the drug.

  David Perlmutter

  Medicine, Risk, Drug

  David Perlmutter (2014). “Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity.

  David Perlmutter

  Expression, Genes, Longevity

  David Perlmutter (2014). “Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.

  Kevin Bales

  Valentine, Ocean, Years

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• I played the character knowing that she was knocked down, 100 percent, dead-in-front-of-a-bus in love with her boss. Every scene, I did not care if it was about taxes or about, you know, getting rid of the penny, it was all about me being in love with him.

  Janel Moloney

  Character, Being In Love, Knowing

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• Yet an estimated 99 percent of people who have a problem with eating gluten don't even know it. They ascribe their ill health or symptoms to something else-not gluten sensitivity, which is 100 percent curable.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Ill Health, People, Gluten

  "Gluten: What You Don’t Know Might Kill You" by Mark Hyman, MD, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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