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• Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.

  Don Winslow

  Drunk, Population, Substance

  "A Don Winslow on his amazing new book ‘The Cartel’ and America’s drug war". Interview with Drew Mcweeny, uproxx.com. July 01, 2015.

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• People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Helping Others, Compassion, People

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• The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life

  Dennis Prager

  World, Scum, Way

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• Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

  Jackie Mason

  Marriage, Funny Love, Cheating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Both belly bulge and love handles are about excess body fat, not lack of muscle. Crunches and ab exercises are therefore not the solution. The best way to reduce these problem areas is to reduce your overall body fat percentage, and we all know that that requires diet and exercise.

  Jillian Michaels

  Loss, Exercise, And Love

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• To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

  John Stuart Mill

  People, Liberty, Libertarian

  John Stuart Mill (1866). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.487

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• Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

  David Remnick

  Pressure, Journalism, Kind

  "David Remnick Looks Back On Tough Decisions As 'The New Yorker' Turns 90". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 18, 2015.

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• It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places where there is violent conflict...It gives us a slightly or very distorted view of what is going on because there are many other parts of the planet where there is no violent conflict, but that is not on the news.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Views, Giving, Important

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Apr 24, 2015

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• But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera.

  Franz von Papen

  People, Stressed, Cinema

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, March 30, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• ... an appallingly high percentage of doctors and other practitioners are still pretty much out of the loop regarding trigger points, despite their having been written about in medical journals for over sixty years.

  Clair Davies

  Pain, Doctors, Years

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• A standard saying among fly fishermen is that trout spend anywhere from 80 to 90 percent of their time feeding below the water's surface on the immature forms of aquatic insects. Some anglers are even more precise, but whatever the exact percentage , it's safe to say that to fully appreciate any tailwater fishery you will have to learn the fine art of nymphing.

  Ed Engle

  Art, Sea, Fishing

  Ed Engle (1991). “Fly Fishing the Tailwaters”, p.65, Stackpole Books

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• Probably a lack of concentration. I always hit them during practice. I just need to concentrate. Even though I should a lousy percentage, I beat a lot of teams from the line. You have to have mechanics. But see, what people don't know about my wrists is my wrists don't go all the way back. My wrists are crooked and don't go all the way back. I've been practicing and working on them. You can't do everything good.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Practice

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• I think everything happens for a reason. With my game being the way it is, if I did shoot 80 percent, I'd be a harder person to deal with. It just keeps me humble. Just imagine me in my game shooting the same percentage that Reggie Miller shoots. I wouldn't even talk to you guys because I wouldn't have to.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Humble, Thinking

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• An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Believe, Found, Snob

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Book of Snobs”, p.4, Booklassic

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• The way America works, and the way L.A. works, is a very small percentage of people get what they want out of life, and a much greater percentage try very very hard and they don't. That's just the way it is.

  James Frey

  America, People, Trying

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• Philosophers, comedians, and tipsy birthday celebrants all have proposed theories about why time seems to move increasingly swiftly as we grow older. But the most disconcerting rationale is not a theory. It is the undeniable realization that every day we live constitutes a smaller percentage of the accrued experience with which we awaken each morning, and therefore seems proportionately a smidgen quicker and smaller than the day before.

  Michael Sims

  Morning, Moving, Comedian

  Michael Sims (2008). “Apollo's Fire: A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day”, p.74, Penguin

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• The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.

  Leonard L. Berry

  Done, Research, Firsts

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• Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in military matters and are not personally impacted.

  Sanford Bishop

  Military, Volunteer, Matter

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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