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• You name it, I've got it. Some players have to be 100 percent (to play), but I don't.

  Torii Hunter

  Player, Names, Twins

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• You can't get out-fought and out-desired. I don't want to see that again. I won't tolerate less than 100 percent desire. I'm their manager, not their babysitter.

  Tim Sherwood

  Football, League, Desire

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• Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Baseball, Country, Giving

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• We will reduce the White House staff by 25 percent

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, White

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• The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

  Brian Tracy

  Jobs, Opportunity, Average

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• Most are expecting 5 percent to 10 percent hikes, but there are rumblings of far nastier surprises.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Notable, Surprise, Expecting

  "How High Will Your Health Insurance Premiums Go In 2015?". townhall.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Today, Americans of all political stripes are coming to a similar, sad realization about our president. A recent Fox News poll asked Americans 'How often does Barack Obama lie to the country on important matters?' Thirty-seven percent said 'most of the time,' 24 percent said 'some of the time,' and 20 percent said 'only now and then.' Just 15% said 'never.'

  Marc Thiessen

  Country, Lying, Political

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• The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.

  Will Cuppy

  Bird, Faithful, Cages

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• To love means being 100 percent responsible for your experience of living, to not be a victim or a martyr, and to be 100 percent accountable for the quality of your life, which includes the amount of love, joy, and growth you create in your relationships each day. To love is the ability to remain strong, stable, and committed through difficult times, changes, and challenges. It means being gentle, kind, and supportive of your potential, goals, and aspirations.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Love, Strong, Mean

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• Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?

  Richard Dawkins

  Dog, Atheist, Thinking

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• You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

  Andrew Tobias

  Risk, Cards, Credit

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• This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail.

  Connie Sellecca

  Inspiration, Care, Lines

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• I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

  Bob Seger

  Writing, Winter, Stuff

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• Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  School, Math, Chinese

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• Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  School, Math, Technology

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• Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  School, College, Years

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• Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Feelings, Behavior, Habit

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.71, Penguin

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• "It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice.

  Simon Rich

  Love, Men, Ninety Nine

  Simon Rich (2013). “The Last Girlfriend on Earth”, p.23, Profile Books

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• Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.

  Jonah Goldberg

  New York, War, America

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• I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

  Mark Twain

  Cat, Men, Tails

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• Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Art, People, Ninety

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• He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the passersby voted to ban water (H2O) from the environment. Maybe that's what really happened to all the water on Mars.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, People, Water

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV.

  Michael K. Powell

  Law, Trying, Transition

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• Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Emotion, Life Is, Ninety

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" by Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price, Ch. 29, 1954.

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• At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.

  George Halas

  Football, Team, Fighting

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