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• Today, you have 20 percent of the world controlling 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product; you've got a $30 trillion (US) world economy, and $24 trillion of it is in the developed countries... These inequities can't exist. So if you are talking about systemic breakdown, I think you have to look in terms of social breakdown.

  James Wolfensohn

  Country, Thinking, Talking

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• Many people are afraid of running because between 30 to 70 percent (depending on how you measure it) of runners get injured every year.

  Daniel Lieberman

  Running, Pain, Years

  "Brains Plus Brawn" by Dr. Daniel Lieberman, www.edge.org. October 7, 2012.

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• To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be a last resort, not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over 50 percent children is ‘in the highest moral traditions of our country.'

  Robert Byrd

  Country, Peace, Children

  "The Byrd That Roared" by Matteen Mokalla, www.motherjones.com. March 2004.

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• I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.

  Ed Zern

  Believe, Sea, Fishing

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• A standard saying among fly fishermen is that trout spend anywhere from 80 to 90 percent of their time feeding below the water's surface on the immature forms of aquatic insects. Some anglers are even more precise, but whatever the exact percentage , it's safe to say that to fully appreciate any tailwater fishery you will have to learn the fine art of nymphing.

  Ed Engle

  Art, Sea, Fishing

  Ed Engle (1991). “Fly Fishing the Tailwaters”, p.65, Stackpole Books

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• The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it.

  Bruce Catton

  War, Fighting, Men

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• I was struggling at Rookie Camp to be quite honest with you. Basically, it was a week of being locked down like in jail for me. I would say about 50 percent of it was useful. The most challenging part of it was off the court. I mean, man we were just sitting there at times. We had meetings from about 10 a.m. in the morning to about 10 at night and you can't get a workout in at all.

  Andrew Bogut

  Sports, Workout, Morning

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• I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty.

  O. J. Simpson

  Sports, Guilty, Not Guilty

  Plea at murder trial, Los Angeles, Cal., 22 July 1994

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• A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Wisdom, Country, People

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• Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Ninety Nine, Humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.19, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Twelve, Three, Care

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• We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Wisdom, Jobs, War

  Nicholas Von Hoffman (1970). “Left at the post”, Crown

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• Kelso's proposals do promise to free us from our morbid dependency on economic health through armament manufacture; they promise a way out of the welfare mess, out of foodstamps and ship subsidies, out of perpetual inflation, and they suggest a means of doing these things without being too disruptive of the wealth of five percent of the population who own the rest of us.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Wisdom, Mean, Promise

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• If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Half, Politics

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• You know I've been in these tabloids for years now. And at some point you just become a Zen master of it all. Most of these stories, you get probably 2 percent real fruit juice and the rest is just garbage with no nutritional value.

  Brad Pitt

  Real, Fruit Juice, Stories

  "Pitt Urges Tabloids to Change Focus". www.foxnews.com. June 07, 2005.

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• The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership in the great corporations. They advertise, "No one owns more than 4 percent of the stock of this great company." Or they print lists of stockholders, showing that these include farmers, schoolteachers, baseball players, taxi drivers, and even babies.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Baseball, Baby, Player

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• I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.

  Rob Corddry

  Comedy, Election, Feels

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• Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers.

  Franklin Raines

  Thinking, Able, Pockets

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• We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.

  Franklin Raines

  Government, Size, Shrinking

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• I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'

  George Steinbrenner

  Oscars, Roger, Economy

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• Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Europe, Lasts, Asia

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• When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I was surprised, but not really, to learn that maybe 60 percent claimed a belief in a God of some sort, including people I would have bet were unregenerate skeptics. Others just shrugged. They don't think about this stuff. It doesn't matter to them. They can't know, they won't beat themselves up trying to know and for that matter they don't care if their kids believe or not.

  Natalie Angier

  Believe, Kids, Thinking

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• It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

  Leonard Hayflick

  Years, Evolution, Planets

  Leonard Hayflick (1994). “How and why we age”

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• Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that have ever lived have died without progeny, but not a single one of your ancestors falls into that group! ... Not a single one of your ancestors, all the way back to the bacteria, succumbed to predation before reproducing, or lost out in the competition for a mate.

  Daniel Dennett

  Fall, Competition, Atheism

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