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• Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

  Mick Jagger

  Iraq, Numbers, People

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• In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American could make more money than 93 percent of the other people on the planet and still be considered poor.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Average, America, Long

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.127, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

  Adam Osborne

  Fog, People, Giving

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• Most of the people we see don't want to live in a shelter and feel save in their own little camp. Experience has taught me that almost 100 percent of these people suffered abuse as children. Well over half have emotional, mental problems. Most have drug and alcohol problems.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Children, Emotional, People

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• Casting is 65 percent of directing.

  John Frankenheimer

  Movie, Inspiring, Casting

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• I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Thinking

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• One of the things Obama's been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government for their living. For example, do you know what was the second-biggest demographic group that voted for Obama? . . . Unmarried women. Seventy percent of unmarried women voted for Obama. And this is because, when you kick your husband out, you've got to have Big Brother government to be your provider. . . .

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Brother, Husband, Government

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• American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans), dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent.

  Michael Pollan

  Vegetables, Soybeans, Corn

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.122, Penguin

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• Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.

  Peter Pronovost

  Data, Missing, Quality

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• At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

  William O. Douglas

  Emotional, Thinking, Decision

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• I think Zelda 64 is utilizing about 90 percent of the N64 potential, ... When we made Mario 64 we were simply utilizing 60 to 70 percent. So we have come a long way I believe.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Believe, Thinking, Long

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• Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70 percent of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes, and even, let's go digital, emoticons used well in online negotiations can lead to you claim more value from that negotiation. If you use them poorly, bad idea. Right? So when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves.

  Amy Cuddy

  Thinking, Ideas, Race

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• Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

  Chris Hedges

  Past, Years, Humans

  Chris Hedges (2007). “What Every Person Should Know About War”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

  Phil McGraw

  Inspirational, Healing, Conflict

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• More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

  Elton Gallegly

  Horse, Pregnancy, United States

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• Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Filled Out, Data, People

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• I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

  Robert Ballard

  Mean, Sea, Ocean Exploration

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• Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

  Norman Borlaug

  Men, Justice, Desire

  "World Food Day and the Challenge to Solve World Hunger and Protect the Planet" by John Bryant, Dr. Jason Clay, Lisa Moon, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2016.

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• About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

  Barry Boehm

  Downtime, Bugs, Programming

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• Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

  Paul J. Zak

  Oxytocin, Generosity, Brain

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• Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Home, Evil, Criminals

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• Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, World, Pay

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• And then at the end of the day, the most important thing is how good are you at risk control. Ninety-percent of any great trader is going to be the risk control.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Risk, The End Of The Day, Important

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• When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

  Dick Fosbury

  Athlete, Levels, Competing

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• When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Car, Energy, Pay

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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