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• Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Years, Special

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.220, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Responsibility, Keys

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.11, Hazelden Publishing

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• It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Writing, Self

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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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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• One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

  John McGraw

  Baseball, Men, Leader

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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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• You could put me on any track. I support that one million percent. Whatever the track is, I'm going to smash it. Believe that.

  Busta Rhymes

  Believe, Track, Support

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

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• I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result

  Carl Levin

  Supportive, Bills, Path

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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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• Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

  Michael Pollan

  Practice, Principles, Population

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.151, 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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• Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the seventy percent of our planet that is covered by water as we are with the dark side of the moon.

  Peter Benchley

  Dark, Moon, Careers

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• Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

  Ed Markey

  Children, Population, Our Future

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• If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.

  Chris LeDoux

  Horse, Skills, Luck

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• Emotionally, it was the hardest 33 days of my life, but it was worth it because the result is that this album is 100 percent me. It’s heartfelt, real, bold, honest, vulnerable, hopeful, strong, poetic, bluesy, gritty, pretty, and simple.

  Christina Perri

  Strong, Real, Simple

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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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• Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade.

  Steve Buyer

  Strong, Benefits, Lasts

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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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• It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

  James Ira Thomas Jones

  Machines, Pilots, Firsts

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