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• We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Holiness, Spirit

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• We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

  Joan Blades

  Presidential, Voter Turnout, Voters

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.

  Christopher Bond

  Thinking, Iraq, Battle

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• Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

  Mario Balotelli

  Gossip, Stories, Use

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• In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

  Melissa Bean

  Jobs, Community, Growth

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• Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

  Michael C. Burgess

  United States, Nuclear, Today

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• The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.

  Peter Bart

  Running, People, Half

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• I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

  Robert Ballard

  Believe, Leaving, Tables

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• For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Wine, Beer, Years

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• I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent.

  Steve Buyer

  Air, Support, Administration

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• I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?

  Tammy Baldwin

  Ideas, People, Mind

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• African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

  Xavier Becerra

  White, Giving, African American

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• I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?

  Charles Cumming

  Ambition, Intelligent, Journey

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• Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Law, Taxes, Governors

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• No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

  Raul Castro

  Country, Rights, Abuse

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• You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Country, Iraq, Important

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• I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.

  Brad Carson

  Appreciation, Self, Tea

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• I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

  Brad Carson

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• My ex-husband and I, even though we're not together, we are 100 percent together in raising our kid. We communicate a lot and where I drop the ball and need him to pick it up or vice versa, he's there.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Husband, Kids, Together

  "Charisma Carpenter Talks 'The Lying Game' Shockers and More". Interview, okmagazine.com. February 26, 2013.

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• If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first.

  Chris Christie

  Fall, Race, Years

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• Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.

  Claudia Christian

  Ninety Nine, Play, Acting

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• I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

  Gregoire Akcelrod

  Football, Hard Work, Player

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

  John Corigliano

  Pieces, Eighty

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.

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• Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it.

  Juan Cole

  Iraq, United States, Income

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• I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.

  Peter Coyote

  Commitment, Phones, People

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