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• One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Believe, Sea, Fishing

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• Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Sex, Europe, Ideas

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• Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of the people perhaps. But, In spite of their numerical inferiority, they play a major role in our society because theirs is the voice of the conscience of society.

  Leo Szilard

  Science, Play, Voice

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• That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

  Ezra Pound

  Thinking, Apathy, Constitution

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• According to leading researchers, however, only about 10 to 15 percent of cancers are genetic in origin; the rest are caused by a combination of environmental and lifestyle factors.

  Dharma Singh Khalsa

  Cancer, Environmental, Lifestyle

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• We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Greatest Love, Fifty, Influence

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• I am not against marriage - without marriage, ninety-nine percent jokes will disappear from the world. How I can be against marriage? I am all for it.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Ninety Nine, World

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• The human body is supposed to be 70 percent water. I consider myself 70 percent film

  Hideo Kojima

  Water, Body, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Faith and daily life, faith and work-these are not separate things. They are one and the same. To think of them as separate-that faith is faith, and work is work-is theoretical faith. Based on the recognition that work and faith are one and the same, we should put one hundred percent of our energy into our jobs and one hundred percent into our faith, too. When we resolve to do this, we enter the path of victory in life. Faith means to show irrefutable proof of victory amid the realities of society and in our own daily lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Jobs, Mean, Reality

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• Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

  Diane Watson

  Senior, Women, Income

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• There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent salary cut.

  Kevin Yoder

  Country, Cutting, Doctors

  "Erin Burnett Outfront", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Likes, Painting

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• People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

  William Weld

  Jobs, Stupid, Mean

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• I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Successful, Thinking

  "The Zen of Jeff Bezos" by Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. January 01, 2005.

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• There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the mass-energy in the universe is called "dark," because nobody knows what it is.

  Noam Chomsky

  Dark, Energy, Mass

  "Science in the Dock". Science & Technology News Intreview, chomsky.info. March 1, 2006.

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• My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.

  Sarah Schulman

  Writing, Gay, People

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• Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months or even a few years. In the long term, there is a 100 percent correlation between the success of the company and the success of its stock. This disparity is the key to making money; it pays to be patient, and to own successful companies.

  Peter Lynch

  Successful, Keys, Years

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer.

  Kristen Bell

  Girl, Determination, Home

  "Veroniva Mars Season 3: Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas talk" by Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. July 18, 2006.

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• I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.

  John Walker Lindh

  Single Life, Honest, Exaggeration

  Interview with Robert Young Pelton, www.cnn.com. July 4, 2002.

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• Ninety-eight percent of success is in the head and the heart.

  Cathy Ferguson

  Success, Running, Heart

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• Ninety-nine percent of everything you do in life is attitude. If you have a relationship with God...you're going to learn to ask the one question in life that covers everything: How can I help you?

  Walter Levine

  Attitude, Inspirational Life, Ninety Nine

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• Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.

  Paul Volcker

  Double Standard, Feds, Terrible

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• They're 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Population, Racist, Care

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• Experiencing a massage therapy session is its own best advertisement for changing perceptions. A recent national consumer survey found Americans had overwhelmingly positive feelings about their massage experience. Ninety-four percent express favorable feelings. Fully 85 percent expressed very favorable feelings about their most recent massage, with 37 percent rating it a perfect ten-out-of-ten. What is striking is that there are very few detractors. Most of those who haven't yet received a massage simply haven't felt a need for it

  Bob Benson

  Perfect, Feelings, Perception

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• Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is infrared and some little ultraviolet, perfectly apparent to many animals, but invisible to me. A nightmare network of ganglia, charged and firing without my knowledge, cuts and splices what I see, editing it for my brain. Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brian: 'This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.

  Annie Dillard

  Mean, Cutting, Animal

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