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• Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Emotion, Life Is, Ninety

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" by Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price, Ch. 29, 1954.

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• At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.

  George Halas

  Football, Team, Fighting

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• But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

  Martin Feldstein

  Aggravation, Dollars, Months

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• I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Shy, Gains

  "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich" by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. August 14, 2011.

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• My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math.

  Charlie Sheen

  Math, Rate

  "Charlie Sheen Sets His Sights on Sox". Boston Dirt Dogs interview, bostondirtdogs.boston.com. March 8, 2011.

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• I think it was Cosby who also said to me, 'If only 2 percent of the world thinks you're funny, you'll still fill stadiums for the rest of your life.'

  Joan Rivers

  Thinking, World, Rest Of Your Life

  "Joan Rivers: Why Johnny Carson 'Never Ever Spoke to Me Again'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 06, 2012.

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• You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z'.

  Aziz Ansari

  Feminist, Should, Concerts

  "Aziz Ansari Is Better Than Most Celebrities at Talking About Feminism" by Amanda Marcotte, www.slate.com. October 7, 2014.

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• We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Work, Blue, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

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• I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.

  Randall Terry

  Country, Teaching, Years

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• Be very careful. Giving because we think we will get something back will not work. You must be 100 percent willing to give and never experience any return, or it will not work.

  John Templeton

  Thinking, Giving, Return

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• You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

  David Shields

  People, Humanity, Genes

  David Shields (2008). “The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead”, p.3, Vintage

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• It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

  Andrew Natsios

  People, Cost, Four

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• There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Thinking, Aquariums, People

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• Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.

  Jim Gerlach

  Estuaries, Fishes

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• That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.

  Mario Lopez

  People, Firsts, Fishes

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• If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That's what I was always told as a kid, and It's worked for me so far!

  Justin Timberlake

  Kids, Ifs

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• I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.

  Patti LaBelle

  Want, Matter, Remembered

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• Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!

  Brian Tracy

  Sacrifice, Pay, Fields

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• I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.

  Neil Young

  Simple, Thinking, Play

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• Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Real, Men

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• I started my career as a sales guy in the nineties, when the funnel was controlled by the sales rep, who had all the information the prospect wanted, including pricing and discount options. Now 90 percent of it has swung to marketing. It's self-service and you need to be very, very helpful to see to the top of the funnel. The game has changed a lot.

  Brian Halligan

  Careers, Self, Games

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• More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

  Martin Scorsese

  Casting, Ninety

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• We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an enourmous ammount of waste of time and money that ends up on the floor.

  Steve Blank

  Waste, Wasting Time, Ends

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• Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.

  Bernhard Langer

  Hard Work, Games, Two

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• Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

  C. Everett Koop

  Teacher, Taken, Kids

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