Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Only 1 percent of the homosexual population in America will die of old age. The average life expectancy for a homosexual in… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main… — Billy Gardell Copy Share Image
A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Converting a classic batch-and-queue production system to continuous flow with effective pull by the customer will double labor productivity all the way… — James P. Womack Copy Share Image
When we talk about gender pay gaps in the United States, and if you look at women without children, they earn 96… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican,… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS... The DC City Council, perhaps on the… — Star Parker Copy Share Image
My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
I'm just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case (the 1994 sexual abuse conviction),… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
European carmakers pledged to reduce CO2 emissions by 25 percent from 1995 to 2008. We kept our word and reduced the value… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
A good actor is like a racehorse or a Ferrari. If a cylinder is missing on a Chevy, it's doesn't matter that… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don't have to… — Jon Kyl Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound… — Buddy Hackett Copy Share Image
There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent,… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
We will be returning to historical levels of inequality. We'll view post-war America as a kind of strange interlude not to be… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between… — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about… — Jeffrey Burton Russell Copy Share Image
You got to remember, S corporations pay one layer of tax, corporations pay two layers of tax. So we basically see equivalent,… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
We can not imagine that an Arab population forming more than 80 percent of the Iraqi society will allow the article reading… — Saleh al-Mutlaq Copy Share Image
Arab public opinion does not regard Iran as a hostile entity. In fact it's so supportive of Iran that a majority would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New… — Randy Neugebauer Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70… — Jennifer Dunn Copy Share Image
In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
