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From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside… — Richard Louv
Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy. — Roy H. Williams
Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of… — Thomas Menino
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. — Paul Rudnick
I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an… — Yvon Chouinard
People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine. — Caprice Crane
Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs,… — Evan Davis
You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it. — Ken Keyes Jr.
The key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure. — James Dyson
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are… — Dalai Lama
It's really hard to find parts that challenge me as an actor these days. At this point in my career, I feel like I can… — Zach Braff
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up… — Eleanor Smeal
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes… — Michael McCaul
The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I… — Robert Scheer
Only 1 percent of the homosexual population in America will die of old age. The average life expectancy for a homosexual in the United States… — Rod Parsley
One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
This program could destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance against the cost of illness....Presently, over 60 percent of our older… — Unknown Author
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement. — Maggie Gallagher
Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of the people perhaps.… — Leo Szilard
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90… — Bob Barker
The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It… — Uwe Reinhardt
That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it,… — Ezra Pound
According to leading researchers, however, only about 10 to 15 percent of cancers are genetic in origin; the rest are caused by a combination of… — Dharma Singh Khalsa
Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food… — Lois Capps
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. — Christopher Marlowe

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