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• In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Average, Kansas, Rose

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• I don't think the science is clear of what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted, for the people to say the science is decided on this is really arrogant, to be honest with you.

  Jeb Bush

  Science, Men, Thinking

  "Jeb Bush rails against 'intellectual arrogance' in climate change debate" by Ashley Killough, edition.cnn.com. May 21, 2015.

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• I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Stupid, People, United States

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• If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.

  Nalini Nadkarni

  Passion, People, Links

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• The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.

  Frank Scoblete

  Believe, Mean, Math

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• A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

  Greg Lynn

  Looks, Woods, Construction

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• Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers.

  Fred Thompson

  Numbers, Hands, Long

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Many of my colleagues are blissfully unaware of the global percentage of people who cannot EVER go to a movie theater, let alone with an entire family. I do not want to make movies for the rich.

  Lexi Alexander

  People, Want, Rich

  Source: piratetimes.net

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• There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

  Dan Harmon

  Jobs, Writing, Genius

  "Dan Harmon walks us through Community's second season". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2011.

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• In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Men, Engineering, Balance

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• Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.

  Tom Lehrer

  Nice, Moral, Manners

  "Song: "Be Prepared"". 1953.

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• It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Education, Honest, Lawyer

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• If two percent of all the films made in Hollywood are really artistically worthy - and I think it's a lot more than two percent - that's a pretty big percentage of things that will outlive their own generation.

  Murray Horwitz

  Thinking, Two, Hollywood

  "The 'Next Big Thing' at the Box Office". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 2, 2008.

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• Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

  Bill Gross

  Gdp, Growth, Debt

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• It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

  Paulo Freire

  Reality, Land, People

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• New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.

  Richard Florida

  New York, Alaska, Kentucky

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• The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, Winning, Groups

  "Berkshire’s Corporate Performance vs. the S&P 500". "2007 Chairman’s letter" by Warren Buffett, Fanciful Figures – How Public Companies Juice Earnings, p.18, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February, 2008.

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• Look, first of all, the climate is changing. I don't think the science is clear what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted. And for the people to say the science is decided on, this is just really arrogant, to be honest with you, it's this intellectual arrogance that now you can't even have a conversation about it. The climate is changing, and we need to adapt to that reality.

  Barack Obama

  Science, Reality, Men

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• The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product both directly and indirectly.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Growth, Doe, Four

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Fernando J. Corbato, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 34, Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• The risk of an investment is described by both the probability and the potential amount of loss. The risk of an investment-the probability of an adverse outcome-is partly inherent in its very nature. A dollar spent on biotechnology research is a riskier investment than a dollar used to purchase utility equipment. The former has both a greater probability of loss and a greater percentage of the investment at stake.

  Seth Klarman

  Loss, Risk, Dollars

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• The financial calculus that Charlie and I employ would never permit our trading a good night's sleep for a shot at a few extra percentage points of return. I've never believed in risking what my friends and family have and need in order to pursue what they don't have and don't need.

  Warren Buffett

  Good Night, Sleep, Order

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.198, John Wiley & Sons

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• The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a funny business because on a net basis, the whole investment management business together gives no value added to all buyers combined. That's the way it has to work. Mutual funds charge two percent per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another three to four percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals.

  John C. Bogle

  Years, Two, People

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• In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.

  Warren Buffett

  Book, Years, Given

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.220, John Wiley & Sons

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• My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Parent, Income

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• You know, the same percentage of people are gay and lesbian as are left-handed. Let's try to figure that out. How can it be that a left-handed person can get married to another left-handed person. Left-handed people can do anything they want. . . . I say, give homosexuals the same rights we give left-handed people.

  Peter Camejo

  Gay, Rights, People

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