Percent Quotes
2114 Percent quotes by 1567 unique authors
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Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of…
— Margaret Mead
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Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and…
— Robert Ballard
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I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.
— Sandra Bernhard
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A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ...…
— Bill Gates
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We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be,…
— Dianne Feinstein
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Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control…
— Jan Schakowsky
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The competition I played against was fantastic, but golf is a different game now. The courses have shrunk because the equipment has gotten better. They're…
— Hollis Stacy
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And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.
— James T. Walsh
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If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for…
— Pete du Pont
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I read something in the paper that really confused me the other day. It said that 80 percent of the people in New York are…
— Louis C. K.
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In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is a…
— David Stockman
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I love Groot so much I get teary eyed when I think of him sometimes. Essentially, all the Guardians start out the movie as bastards…
— James Gunn
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We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of…
— Barry Schuler
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Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise…
— Arthur C. Brooks
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Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular…
— Paul Zane Pilzer
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent…
— Questlove
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About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
— Nathan Wolfe
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All of my stories are 95 percent truthful.
— Si Robertson
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Eighty percent of language lies to us.
— Deena Metzger
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Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people lose a job,…
— Josette Sheeran
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Surveys show that more than 50 percent of people in the U.S. have prayed the sinner's prayer and think they're going to heaven because of…
— J. D. Greear
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Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union…
— Linda Chavez
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I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And…
— Sue Wicks
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The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business…
— Luis von Ahn
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC…
— Richard Louv
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