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• Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

  Billy West

  Causes, Littles, Scared

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?

  Brian Williams

  Gun, Yesterday, People

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• Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Written, Screens

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• Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

  Al Yankovic

  Albums, Medley, Polka

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Adversity, Past, Knowing

  "'92 Olympian Yamaguchi balances road, family" by Suzanne Riss, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2010.

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• We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent.

  Mitt Romney

  Office, Progress, President

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• I realized I need a certain kind of chemistry and a certain kind of look to be into someone, and like 1 percent of the population has it.

  Jen Kirkman

  Population, Needs, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was never up four percent.

  Michael Bennet

  Four

  "Transcript: Face to Face with Sen. Bennet". Interview with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2012.

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• It looks like bribery. I mean,there is every appearance that Hillary Clinton was bribed to grease the sale of, what, 20 percent of America's uranium production to
  Russia, and then it was covered up by lying about a meeting with her home
  with the principals, and by erasing e-mails. And I presume we might know
  for sure whether there was or was not bribery if she hadn't wiped out
  you know, out thousands of e-mails.

  Jedediah Bila

  Lying, Mean, Home

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.

  William Zinsser

  Believe, Writing, Emotional

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• Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous

  Juan Somavia

  Children, Kids, Men

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• A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.

  Vance Havner

  Loyalty, Jesus, Husband

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• The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

  Mara Liasson

  Approval Rating, Giving, President

  "Jobs Back At Political Forefront". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 8, 2012.

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• Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

  Sandra Lee

  Credit, Made, Stores

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• As people get older, they get married, have kids. I'm not married. I don't have kids, so I'm able to focus 100 percent on this.

  Steven Lopez

  Kids, People, Focus

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• 40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

  Tom Lantos

  Children, Growth, Suffering

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• Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.

  Yuri Milner

  Average, Size, Internet

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• No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.

  Bob McDonnell

  President, Unemployment

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• I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

  William Vickrey

  Jobs, Unemployment, Calling

  William Vickrey, Richard Arnott, Anthony B. Atkinson (1997). “Public Economics: Selected Papers by William Vickrey”, p.432, Cambridge University Press

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• If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.

  Peter Welch

  Thinking, People, Pay

  "Rep. Peter Welch". Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. April 21, 2011.

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• The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When that share rises, house prices will fall, because distressed properties sell for significantly less - currently around 25 percent below non-distressed houses.

  Mark Zandi

  Fall, Keys, House

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• It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.

  Kai Greene

  Interesting, Trying, Absolutes

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• Really, an historic night last night. You may have heard, Barack Obama will be the first black president of the United States of America. ... Obama is also the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the vote since Jimmy Carter, the first senator to be elected since Jack Kennedy, the first Muslim to be ... I said too much.

  Jon Stewart

  Night, America, Black

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• We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.

  Dick Cheney

  Impact, Events, Nuclear

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• Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8  months of last year was 42.3 per cent above the corresponding period the year previous, and our total trade with Asia was up 13.5 per cent. For the first time since 1919, the United States in the first 8 months of 1956 accounted for less than 60 percent of our total trade.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Years, Europe, Progress

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