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• We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.

  Julian Bond

  Vote, Defeated, Knows

  "NAACP Blames IRS Probe on Critical Speech". www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2004.

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• Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of humans. Being a parent should be a career. Whereas some people are engineers, musicians, or lawyers, others with the desire and the skills can be fathers and mothers. Schools can be eliminated if the professional parent is also the educator of the child.

  Paul Watson

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The correct method for tracking the stock market is to use semilogarithmic chart paper, since the market's history is sensibly related only on a percentage basis. The investor is concerned with percentage gain or loss, not the number of points traveled in a market average. Arithmetic scale is quite acceptable for tracking hourly waves. Channeling techniques work acceptably well on arithmetic scale with shorter term moves.

  Robert Prechter

  Moving, Loss, Average

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• At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

  Alan Greenspan

  Jobs, Skills, Risk

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• Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

  Roy H. Williams

  Business, Mature, Young

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• It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.

  Donald T. Regan

  Wall, Astrology, Use

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• Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.

  Bobby Bragan

  Sports, Baseball, Ice

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• The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Taken, Political, Income

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.35, Crown Business

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• Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills.

  Pele

  Soccer, Successful, Player

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• While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Average, Numbers

  Sherlock Holmes to Doctor Watson in The Sign of Four (1890).

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• Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Nba, Decision

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• Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

  Charles de Lint

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.79, Macmillan

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• Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Confidence, People, Trying

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• If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life.

  Harold Sherman

  Success, Listening, Intuition

  Harold Sherman (1958). “How to turn failure into success”, Prentice Hall

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• As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by the same parent companies that scared us into the organic aisle in the first place. "They got you comin' and goin'" has never been truer.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Parent, Healthy, Alternatives

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.141, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.

  Bill Drayton

  Makers, Determine, Factors

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• The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.

  George Verwer

  Church, Missionary, Truth Is

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• Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doubt, Form, Treatment

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• I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.

  Sherman Alexie

  Children, Flower, Writing

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• I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

  John F. Kennedy

  Ocean, Thinking, Light

  Remarks in Newport at the Australian Ambassador's Dinner for the America's Cup Crews on September 14, 1962. "Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy", 1962.

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• The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will… return the benefit and reciprocate...

  Michael Nesmith

  Civilization, People, Thieves

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.

  Sergey Brin

  Google, Marketing, Helping

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• The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of thin air. The vast majority of coinages are the product of some kind of repurposing, and the result has always been a mix of tradition and innovation.

  Susie Dent

  Air, Innovation, Majority

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• The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life

  Dennis Prager

  World, Scum, Way

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• People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Helping Others, Compassion, People

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