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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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• 80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.

  Ellen Hollman

  Children, Vision, Disadvantages

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• You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.

  Vic Morrow

  Quality, Hundred, Shows

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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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• But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

  Martin Feldstein

  Aggravation, Dollars, Months

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• You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z'.

  Aziz Ansari

  Feminist, Should, Concerts

  "Aziz Ansari Is Better Than Most Celebrities at Talking About Feminism" by Amanda Marcotte, www.slate.com. October 7, 2014.

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• We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Work, Blue, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Be very careful. Giving because we think we will get something back will not work. You must be 100 percent willing to give and never experience any return, or it will not work.

  John Templeton

  Thinking, Giving, Return

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• You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

  David Shields

  People, Humanity, Genes

  David Shields (2008). “The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead”, p.3, Vintage

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• Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.

  Jim Gerlach

  Estuaries, Fishes

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• That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.

  Mario Lopez

  People, Firsts, Fishes

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• I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.

  Patti LaBelle

  Want, Matter, Remembered

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• Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!

  Brian Tracy

  Sacrifice, Pay, Fields

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• We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an enourmous ammount of waste of time and money that ends up on the floor.

  Steve Blank

  Waste, Wasting Time, Ends

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• Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.

  Bernhard Langer

  Hard Work, Games, Two

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• Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Simple, Answers

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• I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.

  Neil Young

  Simple, Thinking, Play

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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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• I played the character knowing that she was knocked down, 100 percent, dead-in-front-of-a-bus in love with her boss. Every scene, I did not care if it was about taxes or about, you know, getting rid of the penny, it was all about me being in love with him.

  Janel Moloney

  Character, Being In Love, Knowing

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• Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.

  Kevin Bales

  Valentine, Ocean, Years

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• I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that was supposed to pay my tuition, and I used it to make a film. For the longest time, I never actually graduated. And about 70 percent of the things I learned there I had to unlearn, but 30 percent was really valuable. It's like Mark Twain said, "Don't let school get in the way of your education."

  Jim Jarmusch

  School, Nyu, Degrees

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Home, Past, Years

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• You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Achieve, Okay

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• Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Roles, Systems And Processes, Management

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• You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.

  Ivan van Sertima

  Light, Darkness, World

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