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• Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

  Christian Smith

  White, Backgrounds

  Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith (2000). “Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.

  Gabriel Cousens

  Oxygen, Breathing, Ninety

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• More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.

  David Duke

  White, Europe, Law

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• There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.

  Evan Thomas

  Editors, White, Long

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• In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.

  Jorge Cruise

  Our World, Black, Weight

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• One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.

  Amar Bose

  Research, Earning, Hundred

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• One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.

  John W. Gardner

  Latin, Humorous, Reading

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• According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

  James Fallows

  Technology, Assessment, Oil

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• I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Technology, Thinking, Different

  "Lois McMaster Bujold: Crime Scenes Tend to Be Book-Free Zones". www.wired.com. December 12, 2012.

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• You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

  Mark Burnett

  Analysis, Heard, Paralysis

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• The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

  Arthur Bloch

  Tasks, Schedules, Lasts

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• In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

  Campbell Scott

  Editing, Somewhere Else, Actors

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• As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Levels, Sound, Boards

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• I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Italian, Birth, Grew

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• Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Hundred

  "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don’t have the ability to protect their rights.

  Ed Koch

  Believe, Rights, Care

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• I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and
  25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be
  true.

  Harry S. Truman

  Actors, Remember, Politician

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• At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ambition

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• I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

  Hal Linden

  Moving, Starting Over, Roles

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• Showing up is 80 percent of life.

  Woody Allen

  Showing Up

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 21 Aug. 1977

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• I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.

  John McEnroe

  Thinking, Tennis, Monsters

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• The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.

  Ronald Reagan

  Agency, Air, Tree

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• History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Government, People

  Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

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• Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Ninety

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• I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Years, People, Twenties

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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