Per Cent Quotes
297 quotes by 269 authors
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No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.
— George Matthew Adams
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When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm…
— Juliette Binoche
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At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.
— Julie Bishop
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
— Bjork
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The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
— Bill Bryson
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Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is…
— Luther Burbank
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The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that…
— Smedley Butler
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The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of…
— Herman Cain
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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So…
— George Canning
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Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
— Jeffrey Archer
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Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.
— John Kendrick Bangs
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Bob Goodenow will kill me, but if we're going to be realistic about things, probably 75 per cent of the league is overpaid. But we're…
— Brett Hull
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I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.
— Nicole Kidman
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Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine…
— George Wald
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My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought..
— H. L. Mencken
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The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per…
— Joseph Sobran
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His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance…
— Nikola Tesla
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If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2…
— Ronald Fisher
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