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• Casting is 65 percent of directing.

  John Frankenheimer

  Movie, Inspiring, Casting

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

  Fred Brooks

  Two, Maintenance, Fundamentals

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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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• Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Home, Evil, Criminals

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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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• Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Interpretation, Rhythm, Wells

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• It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! We’re not even scratching the surface of what we’re capable of. We are all blessed with a continent of unexplored gifts and talents. Use them, or lose them!

  Clifton Anderson

  Blessed, Average, Use

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• In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.

  Daniel Yergin

  Electric Power, Impact, Focus

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• According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what is estimated at the time of discovery but of the revisions and additions that come with further development.

  Daniel Yergin

  Oil, Discovery, Revision

  Daniel Yergin (2011). “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World”, p.206, Penguin

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• As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Editors, Directors, Actors

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• When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?

  John C. Dvorak

  Doing Nothing, Process, Resources

  "XP Decay". PC Magazine, September 29, 2003.

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• Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

  Robert Ballard

  Country, Lying, Rights

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