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• If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.

  Marc Faber

  Cancer, Government, People

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• We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in the grocery store got there, and we'd like to go back to what we think is a more natural way.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Thinking, Generations, Gone

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• You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

  Paul Feig

  Average, Thousand, Happens

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• You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

  Stedman Graham

  Heart, Men, Negativity

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 22, 2006.

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• I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Reading, Biographies, Horror Fans

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• The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits.

  Timothy Geithner

  Hurt, Recovery, Commitment

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

  Tom Glazer

  Music, Today, Folks

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• In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

  Walter Gilbert

  Years, People, Lists

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• I've found that when I'm having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that last little bit to allow me to move forward, and often it's in a direction that I didn't expect, but is 100 percent true to the character.

  Kim Harrison

  Moving, Character, Littles

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• Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.

  Dennis Hastert

  Senior, Today, Healthcare

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• The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.

  John Hoeven

  Lying, Reality, United States

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• Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.

  John Hoeven

  Alaska, Oklahoma, Texas

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• The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new Canadian oil sands are being developed 'in situ,' meaning, it has a similar carbon footprint and emissions as conventional oil wells.

  John Hoeven

  Strong, Technology, Carbon Footprint

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• Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

  M. F. Husain

  Ninety Nine, People, Stills

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• To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.

  Rebecca Hall

  Fun, Character, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Thinking, Actors, Auditions

  "FUTURES | ‘War Horse’ Breakout Jeremy Irvine" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. December 22, 2011.

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• It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Artist, Thinking, Impact

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• Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Jobs, War, School

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• I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn't choose to rest on her very impressive business laurels. Her luscious 100 percent modal scarves, printed with photos she takes all over the world, are gorgeous. Wearing one is like being wrapped in a hug.

  Gayle King

  Black, Hug, Lucky

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• Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.

  Lydia Ko

  School, Golf, My Friends

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• I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.

  William Kristol

  Design, Kind, Investment

  "Bill Kristol: Mitt Romney’s Low Tax Rate Is ‘Kinda Weird’" by Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2012.

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• The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

  William Kristol

  Average, Giving, Presidential

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• Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Sex, Race, Suffering

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• "You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was ninety percent sure." "I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?" "The other ten percent."

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Humor, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those plants can pump into the air. None. We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, and sulfur, and arsenic in our air and water, but power plants can dump as much carbon pollution into our atmosphere as they want. It's not smart, it's not right, it's not safe, and I determined it needs to stop.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, America, Air

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