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Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

Mario Puzo

War, Suicidal, Gambling

Mario Puzo (1977). “Inside Las Vegas”

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Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

Steve Forbes

Defense, World, Pearls

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.

Jim Bakker

Thinking, People

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left.

Karl Lagerfeld

People, Care, Young

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I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.

Chris Christie

New York, Illinois, California

"Gov. Chris Christie on McChrystal's Downfall, Battle With Teachers' Unions". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2010.

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If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.

Michael Bloomberg

Country, People, Ordinary

"Obama Adviser: Shutdown Looms as GOP Bends to Will of Tea Party". NBC "Meet the Press", www.foxnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.

Bryan Shelton

Tests, Poultry, Clients

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As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought

Dean Kamen

Moving, Fighting, People

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If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool.

Dave Barry

Talking, Law, People

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My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, 'Listen, just take 'Lasers.' You can have whatever percentage off the next ten records I do for the rest of my life. I just do not want to be here anymore.'

Lupe Fiasco

Team, Independent, Lasers

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We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence...Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur. It is too bad because a few Jews of the right type are, I believe, an asset to any country.

Charles Lindbergh

Country, Believe, Population

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There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry's 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.

Henry Ford

Jobs, Unemployment, Wages

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If the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Race, Color, Titles

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God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives.

Daniel Palmer

Sacrifice, Missionary, Helping

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Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.

Vinod Khosla

Zero, Negative, Add

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At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable young people no longer see college as an option because of high costs and when the U.S. is falling further and further behind our economic competitors in terms of the percentage of young people graduating from college, no agreement should be passed which, over a period of years, makes a bad situation worse and will make college even less affordable than it is today.

Bernie Sanders

Fall, College, Agreement

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People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

Sydney Schanberg

New York, Issues, People

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That we need help is easy to see every time we walk down the street. The experts confirm what the obscured view in front of us tells us. They estimate that 64% of adults in the United States are obese and that this percentage is growing. Even our children are being affected, as nearly every one in three American children under the age of 18 is overweight.

Jeff Schweitzer

Children, Loss, Views

Jeff Schweitzer, Larry Deutsch (2011). “Calorie Wars: Fat, Fact and Fiction”, p.7, Dr. Larry Deutsch

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Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of information acquired. Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.

Colin Powell

Numbers, Use, Information

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What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

Timothy Radcliffe

Teaching, Judgement, Church

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In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Past, Today, Wellness

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We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

Gunter Grass

Future, Growth, Environmental Pollution

"Günter Grass in quotes: 12 of the best", www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2015.

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Several of our players at Stanford have used the J-Glove and J-Strap with excellent results. It is a very useful training tool for the player looking to improve both their shot and their percentage. I would recommend it to anyone looking for that extra edge.

Tara VanDerveer

Player, Training, Tools

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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Bill Gates

Generations, Firsts, Fortune

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One of the things Obama's been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government for their living. For example, do you know what was the second-biggest demographic group that voted for Obama? . . . Unmarried women. Seventy percent of unmarried women voted for Obama. And this is because, when you kick your husband out, you've got to have Big Brother government to be your provider. . . .

Phyllis Schlafly

Brother, Husband, Government

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