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• What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.

  Stephen Fry

  Tree, Trying, Frogs

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• A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten percent higher to a lot more, which he imposes on his staff. If his people miss the stretch numbers but exceed the realistic goals, he's happy. If he's a superb manager, he knows how far they can stretch without breaking.

  Twyla Tharp

  Leadership, Numbers, Goal

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers in developing countries. These helped alleviate 7.7 million subsistence farmers in China, India, South Africa, the Philippines from abject poverty.

  Clive James

  Country, World, Developing Countries

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• When I'm a little fatigued, sometimes I baby it. I don't try to do it. I'm not 100 percent. I probably won't be the rest of conference play. I just have to play through it. I've never really been injured before.

  Bobby Jones

  Baby, Play, Trying

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• Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief.

  Dan Quayle

  Meaningful, Agriculture, Years

  "Republican rivals focus on farm crisis" by David Yepsen, www.cnn.com. August 12, 1999.

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• Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pain, Life Is, Drink

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• I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Thinking, Patriotism, Bottles

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”

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• Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners.

  Daniel Dennett

  Life, Spring, Perspective

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• It varies by community. At (one local community) we've never offered them. But at most communities, we offer 2 or 3 percent off base price.

  Roger Lewis

  Communication, Community, Offers

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• When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.

  Anita Desai

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone to own a computer. We're aiming at everybody who uses a computer as an information access device. The original idea was to build one cheaply enough to put one on every desk.

  Larry Ellison

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Atmosphere, President, Bail

  "Industry - but not NRA - backs some restrictions on guns". www.cnn.com. May 10, 1999.

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• The Democratic National Committee is virtually 100 percent anti-firearms ownership, and the Republican National Committee stands on the side of the freedom.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Sides, Republican, Ownership

  "Gun lobby targets Gore, Democrats" by Wolf Blitzer, Brian Cabell, www.cnn.com. May 23, 2000.

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• While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account balance by 17 percent after 20 years.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Impact, Years, Balance

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• Wes Clark put forward a middle-class tax plan, but it only helps a quarter of middle-class families, none without minor children at home. And mine helps 98 percent of the middle class.

  Joe Lieberman

  Children, Home, Class

  "Senator Joe Lieberman, D-Conn". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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• You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.

  Lennox Lewis

  Goal, Hunger, Missions

  "Lewis steps outside the ring". Interview with Karie Atkinson, www.cnn.com. February 6, 2004.

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• I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.

  Bret Michaels

  New York, Night, Giving

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• Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

  Shimon Peres

  Mean, Desire, Compromise

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• Currently, we're finding that about 75 percent of potential jurors have anger or deep-seated hatred toward anyone associated with Enron.

  Michael Ramsey

  Hatred, Enron, Findings

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• Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as 'Don't ask and don't tell,' needs to be abandoned -- that is not in anyone's best interest.

  David Eisenberg

  Views, Physicians, Needs

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• Abbott Labs absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side.

  David L. Katz

  Opportunity, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

  Bill Wyman

  Twenties, Advertising, Thirty

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• Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.

  Celinda Lake

  Want, Six, Workplace

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• Controlled Middle East oil, it would control the world. This oil represents 65 percent of world oil reserves. Therefore, America believes if it squashed Iraq, it would control the oil of the Middle East and consequently hold the oil in its hands [and] fix its price the way it likes.

  Saddam Hussein

  Believe, Hands, Oil

  "Saddam: U.S. 'believes it should control the world'" by James Martone, www.cnn.com. September 2, 2002.

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• Although the traditional focus of Valentine's Day is on women and the gifts they desire, this survey found that not only do men like to get gifts for Valentine's Day, but they also like those gifts to be luxurious. Sixty-three percent of the people we surveyed agreed that this Valentine's Day, Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a great gift for the men in their lives.

  Christopher Parsons

  Valentine, Men, Blue

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