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• After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.

  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

  War, Coffee, Garden

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• The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  Mistake, Long, Decision

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• What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being merely a de facto reality. The culture has been different. And secondly, the percentage of the world's population for whom such ascent was possible has gone up. But even though it has grown up, meritocratic ascent remains very much the attribute of a minority.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Reality, Two, Civilization

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• It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of the whole has grown significantly under historical capitalism. And for these people, the world they know is better on the whole than any their earlier counterparts knew.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Pertinent Questions, People, Historical

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.136, Verso

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• Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would name Freud, Einstein, Marx and Darwin. Of these four, only Darwin was not Jewish. In a world where Jews are only a tiny percentage of the population, what is the secret of the disproportionate importance the Jews have had in the history of Western culture?

  Ernest Van den Haag

  Men, Thinking, Names

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• The real debate isn't over National League MVP, but over which of Barry Bonds' seasons should be considered his finest. There's 2001, when he hit his record seventy-three home runs. There's 2002, when he hit .370 and won his first batting title. And now there's 2004, when the San Francisco Giants slugger is preparing to shatter his season record for on-base percentage, hitting for nearly as high an average as Ichiro and missing fewer pitches than ever.

  Ken Rosenthal

  Running, Real, Home

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• I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

  Adam Levine

  Successful, Lasts, Generations

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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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• It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.

  David Gilmour

  Crazy, America, Giving

  "Pink Floyd Reuniting For Live 8 Concert". www.billboard.com. June 12, 2005.

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• Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

  Mario Puzo

  War, Suicidal, Gambling

  Mario Puzo (1977). “Inside Las Vegas”

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• If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool.

  Dave Barry

  Talking, Law, People

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• I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP - gross national product - over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Years, Numbers

  "Interest Groups Are Suiting Up for Tax Cut Battle" by Thomas B. Edsall, www.washingtonpost.com. March 11, 2001.

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• Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Thinking, Men, Fifty

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• Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Success, Mistake, Errors

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• I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.

  Bryan Shelton

  Tests, Poultry, Clients

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• A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

  John F. Kennedy

  Home, Mean, Cutting

  "Radio and Television Address to the Nation on the Test Ban Treaty and the Tax Reduction Bill". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 18, 1963.

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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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• Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of information acquired. Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.

  Colin Powell

  Numbers, Use, Information

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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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• I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.

  Donald Pleasence

  Halloween, Choices, Salary

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• And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage of them are squinty-eyed and bald and their faces are all mushed toegther, kind of like Renee Zellweger pushed up against a glass window.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Parenting, Motherhood

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me Deluxe”, p.19, Penguin

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• We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.

  John Kaplan

  Real, Law, Liberty

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• Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy of supply, and the percentage of energy returned on the energy invested in energy production, none currently appears capable of perpetuating this kind of society.

  Richard Heinberg

  Oil, Impact, Environmental

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• That we need help is easy to see every time we walk down the street. The experts confirm what the obscured view in front of us tells us. They estimate that 64% of adults in the United States are obese and that this percentage is growing. Even our children are being affected, as nearly every one in three American children under the age of 18 is overweight.

  Jeff Schweitzer

  Children, Loss, Views

  Jeff Schweitzer, Larry Deutsch (2011). “Calorie Wars: Fat, Fact and Fiction”, p.7, Dr. Larry Deutsch

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• There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

  Alain Robert

  People, Comfort, Want

  "Alain Robert: 'French Spiderman' on his death-defying stunts". Interview with Stefanie Blendis, Rosie Tomkins, Teo Kermeliotis, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2010.

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