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• Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount.

  David Neeleman

  People, Profit Sharing, Program

  "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". SFGate Interview, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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• In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.

  Daniel Yergin

  Electric Power, Impact, Focus

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• According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what is estimated at the time of discovery but of the revisions and additions that come with further development.

  Daniel Yergin

  Oil, Discovery, Revision

  Daniel Yergin (2011). “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World”, p.206, Penguin

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• Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

  Frank Luntz

  Thinking, Stronger, How You Feel

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• As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Editors, Directors, Actors

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• When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?

  John C. Dvorak

  Doing Nothing, Process, Resources

  "XP Decay". PC Magazine, September 29, 2003.

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• The something inside me that always fought to win, that never gave into the pain and that accepted no less than 110 percent has never been gone because that something was simply me.

  Julie Krone

  Pain, Winning, Gone

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• Someone I talked to who covered auto racing for a lot of years said she believed there was a 60 percent chance that Junior qualified with a car not quite up to code and people looked the other way because there’s no points involved [with the pole].

  Tony Kornheiser

  Years, Car, People

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• Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, War, Ninety Nine

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• Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

  Robert Ballard

  Country, Lying, Rights

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• I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Bad Relationship, I Can

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• A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Motivation, Inspiration

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• We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Russia, Wind, Achievement

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• Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Years, Drug, Colombia

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• The competition I played against was fantastic, but golf is a different game now. The courses have shrunk because the equipment has gotten better. They're hitting the ball 10 to 15 percent farther because of the changes in the golf ball.

  Hollis Stacy

  Golf, Games, Competition

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• And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

  James T. Walsh

  School, Kids, United States

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• If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

  Pete du Pont

  Winning, Trying, Opponents

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• I read something in the paper that really confused me the other day. It said that 80 percent of the people in New York are minorities. Shouldn't you not call them minorities when they get to be 80 percent of the population? That's a very white attitude, don't you think? I mean, you could take a white guy to Africa and he'd be like 'Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.'

  Louis C. K.

  New York, Attitude, Confused

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• In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is a lot. Today, after serial bubble after serial bubble, the top five per cent have net worth of $40 trillion. The top five percent have gained more wealth than the whole human race had created prior to 1980.

  David Stockman

  Race, Today, Wealth

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• I love Groot so much I get teary eyed when I think of him sometimes. Essentially, all the Guardians start out the movie as bastards - except Groot. He’s an innocent. He’s a hundred percent deadly and a hundred percent sweet. He’s caught up in Rocket’s life, really.

  James Gunn

  Sweet, Thinking, Rockets

  "Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer Breakdown with James Gunn" by B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2014.

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• We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

  Barry Schuler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Differences

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• Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Government, Data, Support

  Arthur C. Brooks (2011). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.13, Basic Books

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• Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Exercise, Adults, Leisure

  Paul Zane Pilzer (2012). “The New Wellness Revolution: How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry”, p.108, John Wiley & Sons

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• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  Questlove

  Believe, Men, People

  "Interview: How Questlove Stays Occupied" by Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2011.

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• About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Motivation, Inspiration, Noses

  "Are Microbes The Next Frontier?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 12, 2014.

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