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• The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers and many of chemotherapy's other successes were in diseases so rare that many clinicians had never even seen a single case

  Ralph W. Moss

  Cancer, Two, Childhood

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent of total generating capacity worldwide. This is over three times nuclear generating capacity and roughly 38 percent of the capacity of fossil fuel-burning power plants worldwide.

  Christopher Flavin

  Burning, Fuel, Fossils

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• Here’s my prediction: Ninety percent of what everyone will drink will be red wine, and one of the biggest markets will be China.

  Kevin Zraly

  Wine, Red, Drink

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• If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Competition, Reputation, Honest

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• I don't know about Cricket but still I watch Cricket to see Sachin play..Not because I love his play, its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he is in batting

  Barack Obama

  Country, Play, Watches

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• Here's an interesting figure: 43 percent of the incoming congressional freshmen are millionaires. The other 57 percent are Democrats.

  Jay Leno

  Interesting, Freshman, Figures

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• For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.

  Dan Barber

  Motivation, Inspiration, Cutting

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• Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year. Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans.

  Tim Harford

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

  Bonnie Bassler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

  "How bacteria 'talk'". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2009.

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• Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Motivation, Regret, Inspiration

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• If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 25 percent higher. ... If your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of obesity is 10 percent higher. It's only when you get to your friend's friend's friend's friends that there's no longer a relationship between that person's body size and your own body size.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Risk

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• Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Ninety Nine, Advertising

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• Fighters are afraid of conditioning, they are afraid of getting tired, but I don't want to have anxiety or be afraid of anything. I can go 100 percent out there and never have to worry about getting tired. Everybody says fighting is 90 percent mental, and it's true. Knowing you can go 15 minutes or 25 minutes without any problem can help you sustain that mental advantage over your opponent.

  Nick Diaz

  Tired, Fighting, Knowing

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• In software, consultants sometimes tell you to buy into certain software-development methods to the exclusion of other methods. That’s unfortunate because if you buy into any single methodology 100 percent, you’ll see the whole world in terms of that methodology. In some instances, you’ll miss opportunities to use other methods better suited to your current problem.

  Steve McConnell

  Opportunity, Missing, Use

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.20, Pearson Education

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• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  Rainn Wilson

  Being Single, Office, Style

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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