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Are global temperatures rising? Surely, they were rising from the late 1970s to 1998, but 'there has been no net global warming since 1998.' Indeed,… — John R. Lott Jr.
Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just one percent. That would be like turning… — Rupert Murdoch
Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent! — Brian Tracy
The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent. — Brian Tracy
We don't want to be prejudging outcomes here," she said of US opposition to scientific guidelines for rich nations to cut emissions by 25-40 percent… — Paula Dobriansky
Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of… — Barack Obama
Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus… — Jan Schakowsky
Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative. — Harold Geneen
There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no… — Margaret Mead
95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details,… — Ha-Joon Chang
I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with the questions that I couldn't… — Chip Wilson
The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of… — Peter Drucker
The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent. — Ralph Nader
On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening… — Immanuel Wallerstein
For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of privilege, the world… — Immanuel Wallerstein
We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms from landfills to Superfund cleanups, from deep-well injection to storage of nuclear waste. In… — Paul Hawken
Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves. We put teams… — Kristy Hinze
A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes,… — Robert Muller
Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all… — Bill Bryson
War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the… — Eric Pianka
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were… — Colin Ward
You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only a… — Irving Berlin
If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into… — Kevin Systrom
The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world — Robert Orben

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