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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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• Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

  Steve Forbes

  Defense, World, Pearls

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

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• My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, 'Listen, just take 'Lasers.' You can have whatever percentage off the next ten records I do for the rest of my life. I just do not want to be here anymore.'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Team, Independent, Lasers

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• I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.

  Chris Christie

  New York, Illinois, California

  "Gov. Chris Christie on McChrystal's Downfall, Battle With Teachers' Unions". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2010.

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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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• If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, People, Ordinary

  "Obama Adviser: Shutdown Looms as GOP Bends to Will of Tea Party". NBC "Meet the Press", www.foxnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

  Jeff Bezos

  What Matters, Dollars, Multiple

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• Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

  Edgar Fiedler

  Funny, Humor, Growth

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• There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry's 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.

  Henry Ford

  Jobs, Unemployment, Wages

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• And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state.

  Michael Chertoff

  Country, Criticism, Program

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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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• 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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• 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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• The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.

  Eric Clapton

  Growing Up, Different, Looks

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• My heart is a weatherballoon caught in an updraft of a chinese tax percentage, the tax percentages are unequivocaaaaaaaaaal, Unequivocaaaaaaaaal. This is the sort of lyrics you could never think of, loser. Here's a razorblade go cut yourself

  Thom Yorke

  Heart, Cutting, Thinking

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• Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

  Barbara Walters

  Males, Attractive, Compare

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

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• The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

  Serj Tankian

  Reality, Prison, Prison System

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

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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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• Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.

  Alex Steffen

  Cities, Decision, Energy

  "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.

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• People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Income, Charity

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• In many ways Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when universal credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Moving, Scotland, People

  "An independent Scotland could not pay welfare bill, says Iain Duncan Smith". www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.

  Simon Sinek

  Law, Purpose, Half

  "It’s Not Nice to Stab People" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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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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• I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Men, Names, Facts

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• Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that.  So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.

  Jeff Bezos

  Cash Flow, Dollars, Want

  "Jeff Bezos on Leading for the Long-Term at Amazon". "HBR IdeaCast" with Adi Ignatius, hbr.org.

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