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one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.

Mary Daly

Men, Law, People

Mary Daly (1973). “Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation”, Beacon Press (MA)

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It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Knitting, Shopping, Yarn

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.79, Storey Publishing

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When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.

Millicent Fenwick

Couple, Men, Hands

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Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.

Michael Bloomberg

Running, Night, Gun

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Now, you might say – “But why should we pay people for doing what they’re supposed to do?” It’s a fair question – but think of it this way: Every other anti-poverty program that’s been tried has failed to get the national poverty rate below 11 percent... Why shouldn’t we experiment with a program built around the one strategy that has proven time and again to work wonders – capitalism?

Michael Bloomberg

Thinking, People, Might

Mayor Bloomberg's Address to The Brookings Center On Children And Families "briefing On The Census Poverty Report", www1.nyc.gov. August 28, 2007.

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The most important thing, of course, is that you should look more stunning than you have ever looked in your life. How many excuses do you have to wear a dress bigger than anyone else's, at a party just for you, where everyone has to burst into tears from how gorgeous you look while you prance around in front of them? Remember, your lifelong happiness depends on this one article of clothing. If it doesn't look good, you're not a bride. You're just some idiot in a big white thing - a color unflattering to about 93 percent of the population.

Mimi Pond

Party, Color, White

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It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

Sue Grafton

Years, Population, Dishonesty

Sue Grafton (2010). “"H" is for Homicide”, p.13, Macmillan

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With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova.

Jackie Speier

Country, Office, United States

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... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

Caroline Llewellyn

Two, I've Learned, Hundred

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Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

Shiv Khera

Goal, People, Three

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If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.

Virgil Miller Newton

Children, Sibling, Addiction

"How to Stop Your Relatives from Driving You Crazy: Strategies for coping with 'Challenging' Relatives". Book by Denise Lang, 1992.

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There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.

Mary Kingsley

Ice, Fishing, Circles

Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.75, Routledge

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There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.

Nicole Haislett

Success, Commitment, Doubt

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Im share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.

Stephen Amell

Details, Life Is, Share

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Chess is 99 percent calculation.

Andrew Soltis

Chess, Calculations

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I like using a 75-percent swing for wedge shots instead of full force.

Keegan Bradley

Swings, Wedges, Shots

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Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job. I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now.

Marc Bulger

Jobs, Tired, Half

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Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.

Robert McKee

Powerful, Heart, Maturity

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When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through the cracks. If a woman filmmaker makes film about war, like [Kathryn] Bigelow, they say "Okay, this is a war film, it has ninety percent men in it, we know what to do with it." But then she still gets attacked for not doing it properly. [...] But even though it bothers me I don't want to dwell on the sex and gender thing.

Signe Baumane

Sex, War, Fall

"Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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There is something fundamentally wrong about the way we [americans] are moving as a country, when billionaires are able to buy elections as a result of Citizens United. There`s something fundamentally wrong when 99 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent.

Bernie Sanders

Country, Moving, Able

Source: www.nbcnews.com

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I was always at about 70/30. About 70 percent of the people of my district appreciated me, and about 30 percent had quite another view of me.

George W. Bush

Views, People, Appreciated

Source: www.nbcnews.com

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When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.

George W. Bush

America, Enemy, Desire

"Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 31, 2006.

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If everyone in America agreed that 80 percent of their contributions for House, Senate, and president could only come from people making contributions of $100 or less, we'd have a pretty darn good system. The influence of money would be gone.

Brian Williams

America, People, House

"Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), political roundtable". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com.

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The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.

Robert Anton Wilson

Reading, Book, Rubbish

Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

Byron Katie

Mother, Responsibility, Thinking

"The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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