Percentages Quotes

• If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Sports, Children

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• I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.

  Alton Brown

  Thinking, Games, Names

  "Foodie Wannabe? Here's How To Fake It". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 7, 2011.

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• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.

  Bill Mollison

  Change, Food, Garden

  "An introduction to permaculture". Book by Bill Mollison, 1991.

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• We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Cancer

  "Why I'm not angry at Lance Armstrong" by Sally Jenkins, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2012.

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• There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Jonathan Lethem (2014). “Amnesia Moon”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Education, Ideas, Conscious

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• Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

  David M. Shoup

  Military, Marine, Winning

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• Mutual funds charge 2% per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another 3-4 percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals. I think it's disgusting. It's much better to be part of a system that delivers value to the people who buy the product. But if it makes money, we tend to do it in this country.

  Charlie Munger

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Charlie Munger's comments on business and investing topics at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 1, 2004.

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• Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

  Miles Franklin

  Selfish, Views, Shoes

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

  Steve Aoki

  Private Life, Swear

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• 100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

  C. S. Lewis

  Death, Cents, Dies

  "The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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• If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions?

  David Jeremiah

  Uplifting, Would Be, Today

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• From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

  Wayne Allard

  Adults, Would Be, Income

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• Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Identity, Politician, Polls

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.185, Macmillan

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• Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, People, Pay

  "The Fairness Trap". www.newyorker.com. June 4 & 11, 2012.

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• You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.

  Michael Scott

  Philosophy, Thinking, Smell

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.98, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Population, Stereotype, Significant

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• Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me that if the marriage ceremony is needed as a protection to insure the enforced support of children, then you are marrying a man who, you suspect, would under certain conditions, refuse to support his children, and it is a pretty low-down proposition. For you are marrying a man whom you already suspect of being a villain. But I have not so poor an opinion of men that I believe the greater percentage of them to be such low specimens of humanity.

  Isadora Duncan

  Children, Believe, Men

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• We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

  Gunter Grass

  Future, Growth, Environmental Pollution

  "Günter Grass in quotes: 12 of the best", www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2015.

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• Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Kings, Children, Class

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• A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

  Bill Gates

  Generations, Firsts, Fortune

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• The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

  Herman Cain

  Rights, Voting, President

  "A Pizza Party with Herman Cain". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.

  Al Franken

  Couple, Gay, Media

  Al Franken (2004). “Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, p.14, Penguin

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• We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Sea

  Source: therumpus.net

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