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• Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Courage, Honesty, Attitude

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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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• The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

  Sherrod Brown

  Struggle, Average, Income

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• It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

  Charlie Haden

  Struggle, Creativity, Creative

  "Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.

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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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• Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.

  Kanye West

  Looks, Egomaniacs, Good Times

  "Kanye West admits he looks miserable 90% of the time - see his 13 grumpiest faces here" by Issy Sampson, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2013.

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• Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

  Silvan Shalom

  Suicide, Numbers, Bombers

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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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• We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?

  Ann Romney

  Thinking, Years, Giving

  "Ann Romney: We’ve Given ‘All You People Need To Know’ About Family Finances", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2012.

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• To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

  Judith Crist

  Two, Style, Three

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• In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

  Tavis Smiley

  School, Boys, Black

  "Education an economic issue?". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in that position. And I'm also careful. I save 38 percent of my earnings after expenses, before taxes.

  David Duval

  Mean, Lucky, Want

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• Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that postmenopausal women who were put on statin drugs to lower their cholesterol had a nearly 48 percent increased risk of developing diabetes compared to those who weren’t given the drug.

  David Perlmutter

  Medicine, Risk, Drug

  David Perlmutter (2014). “Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity.

  David Perlmutter

  Expression, Genes, Longevity

  David Perlmutter (2014). “Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• The challenge of ultrarunning is 90 percent mental, and the other 10 percent is all in our heads

  Ray Zahab

  Challenges

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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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• Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Adults, Three

  Brian Tracy (2016). “Get Smart!”, p.46, Jaico Publishing House

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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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• Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms.

  Jessica Green

  Motivation, Inspiration, Eye

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• African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.

  Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

  Motivation, Inspiration, Land

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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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• If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

  Hans Rosling

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Leader, Kind

  Brian Tracy (2017). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.66, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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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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• There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Europe, Drug, World

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