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• Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.

  Sue Kelly

  Jobs, Corny, Small Business

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• I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Religious, Attitude, Athlete

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• Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

  Lee Strasberg

  Art, Hard Work, Twenties

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• Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours

  Richard Branson

  Passion, Life Is, Should

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• The Bön texts are thousands of years old, and I am sure that not even 7 percent of what is still in monasteries, libraries and caves has been translated. Even without taking into consideration the spiritual aspect, Bön should be preserved as a treasure for humanity just for its cultural aspect.

  Anne Klein

  Spiritual, Years, Humanity

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• Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, War, Party

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• Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy and we must protect this great resource.....Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual.

  Barack Obama

  Eight, Usual, Movement

  "Obama Tries to Retract Statement to End Billions in Contracting Fraud" by Lloyd Chapman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2008.

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• I drink and smoke and I am two hundred percent fit.

  Winston Churchill

  Two, Fit, Drink

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• Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Simple, Answers

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• For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

  Barbara Feldon

  Marriage, Adventure, Forever

  Barbara Feldon (2007). “Living Alone and Loving It”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about forty percent of professional natural scientists are practicing Christians, and many others are theists of other kinds. Fewer than thirty percent are atheists.

  Jeffrey Burton Russell

  Christian, Atheist, Atheism

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• Creation is not your doing, but the way you are, the way you experience life, the situations you attract, are one hundred percent your doing.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Perception, Way

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• Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Home, Past, Years

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• It follows that unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90 percent of your money.

  David Ogilvy

  Copywriting, Headlines, Products

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• You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Achieve, Okay

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• Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Roles, Systems And Processes, Management

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• The awkward truth, according to one study, is that 90 percent of 8-to-16-year-ol ds have viewed pornography online. Considering the standard climax to even the most vanilla hard-core scene today, that means there is an entire generation of young people who think sex ends with a money shot to the face.

  Gail Dines

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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• I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real
  estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent.

  Ivana Trump

  Wall, Real, Made

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• You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.

  Ivan van Sertima

  Light, Darkness, World

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• When you give 100 percent to another person, two literally become one.

  Yehuda Berg

  Two, Giving, Give 100 Percent

  Yehuda Berg (2010). “Santan: An Autobiograghy (Large Print 16pt)”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, America

  Barack Obama's Speech in Immigration Town Hall in Miami, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 25, 2015.

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• One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Zero, Doubt

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• Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

  John Medina

  Errors, Tasks, Matter

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• The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time…To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing information-rich inputs simultaneously…Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

  John Medina

  Errors, Brain, Tasks

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• We talk of globalization, and how much money is needed for the education of children in the world, their liberation and rehabilitation just $9 billion which is four days of military expense. Just four days. Nine billion dollars is nothing. But what Americans spent on ice cream just 20 percent of this. One fifth of what you spend on ice creams could bring the children out of the clutches of their masters and put them to school.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Military, School

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