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“The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.”

People Believe Real Behinds Danger Tough Argument Absolutes Climate Climate Change Cents Crap Eighty

Author:Tony Abbott

“For the sake of the Gospel, it was worth it… All you have to do is look at any society where there is no Jesus. I’ll give you four: Nazis, no Jesus. Look at their record. Uh, Shintos? They started this thing in Pearl Harbor. Any Jesus among them? None. Communists? None. Islamists? Zero. That’s eighty years of ideologies that have popped up where no Jesus was allowed among those four groups. Just look at the records as far as murder goes among those four groups.”

Giving Years Looks Jesus Records Four Groups Murder Sake Ideology Zero Communist Worth It Nazi Pearls Eighty Harbors Dynasty Islamists

Author:Phil Robertson

“Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.”

“Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.”

Inspirational Healing Conflict Percent Statements Disguise Eighty

Author:Phil McGraw

“If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of gestures. Arithmetically, it is simply impossible. Without the slightest doubt, there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals. That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion: a gesture is more individual than an individual. We could put it in the form of an aphorism: many people, few gestures.”

People Ifs World Form Individual Difficult Doubt Impossible Planets Findings Billions Conclusion Hats Fewer Aphorism Gestures Shocking Eighty Our Planet

Author:Milan Kundera

“We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie.”

Knows Men Lying Percent Seventies Ninety Eighty Masturbation

Author:Joycelyn Elders

“Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.”

Children States Age America United United States Six Percent Gun Madness United States Of America Eighty

Author:Nita Lowey

“Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.”

Country Ten Hundred Competition Olympics Ninety Eighty

Author:George Pataki

“I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn’t know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.”

Knows Way Feels Fun Having Fun Eighty

Author:Tama Janowitz

“If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you're having them.”

People Care Found Trouble Percent Twenties Don't Care Glad Eighty

Author:E. J. Holub

“At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING.”

Years Stills Waiting Tomorrow Wake Up Eighty Seventeen

Author:Frank Warren

“Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.”

Thinking Feels I Can Life Is Emotion Our Lives Percent Stronger Deeper Intellect Eighty How You Feel

Author:Frank Luntz

“Eighty percent of language lies to us.”

Lying Language Percent Eighty

Author:Deena Metzger

“Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things — there is nothing to fall back on.”

People World War Jobs Fall Loses Economy Conflict Percent Safety Strikes Disaster Flood Governance Eighty Fall Back Safety Net Food Safety

Author:Josette Sheeran

“Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. To my own surprise I burst out with hot conviction. Only a few years ago I enjoyed my tranquility; now I am so disturbed by the outer world and by human quality in general that I want to put things right, as though I still owed a debt to life. I must calm down. I am far too frail to indulge in moral fervor.”

Source: Measure of My Days

“I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.”

Knows Wells Made Lifetime Yesterday Texas More Money Eighty Sixteen Irrigation

Author:Jimmy Dean

“People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex usually turn out to be, like, eighty. And their letters always end with, "Just joking."”

People Thinking Writing Ends Turns Sex Objects Ought Letters Complaining Complaints Eighty

Author:Dave Barry

“Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?”

Years Kings Six Injury Savior Eighty

Author:Polycarp

“When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine Michelangelo living five centuries ago, painting, sculpting, and writing. Imagine he is telling you that you can create whatever you desire, and the great danger is not in having too much hope, but in reaching what you have perceived as hopeless.”

Feels Writing Desire Five Too Much Imagine Century Danger Painting Encouragement Prepared Ill Accomplish Nine Reaching Hopeless Eighty Sculpting

Author:Wayne Dyer

“At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.”

Feels Years Two Women Twenties Eighty

Author:Milton Berle

“In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.”

Littles Different Film Bits Five Figures Little Bit Happenings Percent Opposites Importance Twenties Theatre Eighty Comprehension Ratios Embroidery

Author:Nicholas Ray

“Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

“Eighty and six years have I served Christ, nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then, could I blaspheme my King who saved Me?....I bless Thee for deigning me worthy of this day and this hour that I may be among Thy martyrs and drink the cup of my Lord Jesus Christ.”

Years May Done Jesus Christ Hours Lord Kings Drink Six Jesus Christ Worthy Harm Saved Cups Thee This Day Bless Martyr Eighty Lord Jesus Christ

Author:Polycarp

“I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'”

Ifs Wells Age Remember Found Team Football Bears Office Response Owners Sunday Chicago Eighty Football Team

Author:Bernie Siegel

“I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.”

Young Dies Seventies Ninety Eighty

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.”

People Guy Stuff Five Minutes Industry Theatre Five Minutes Eighty Trailers Movie Industry Fillers

Book:Chicken pox for the soul

Source: Chicken pox for the soul

“Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.”

Three Six Ancient Greek Ninety Eighty Persian Sanskrit

Author:Robert Johnson

“Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?”

Jobs Hate Hours Week Forty Eighty Work You Love Jobs You Hate

Author:Jay Samit

“I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.”

People Thinking Knows Years Looks Facts Party Crazy Modern Century Seven Appeals Crowns Seven Years Eighty Pathetic Monarchy Old Lady Christie Forward Thinking

Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much. She may, on the other hand, simply decide to enjoy the eighty percent, and both of them will be happy.”

Ifs May Whole Hands Enjoy Wife Husband Married Expectations Percent Twenties Generous Chips Eighty Reducing Married Life

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.”

Years Stills Asks Found Imagination Answers Gone Effects Sight Marvelous Electricity Eighty

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that, at his birth, he might have found room in a quart mug. He died on March the 20th, 1727, after more than eighty-four years of more than average bodily health and vigour; it is a proper pendant to the story of the quart mug to state that he never lost more than one of his second teeth.”

Years States Stories Might Found Lost Born Rooms Four Birth Died Average Teeth Related March Four Years Infant Eighty Newton Christmas Day Isaac Mug Pendants

Author:Augustus De Morgan

“I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.”

Funny Hundred Pounds Eighty Obesity

Author:Roscoe Arbuckle

“A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.”

Years Taught Couple Program Graduates Eighty Columbia Nyu

Author:Russell Banks

“Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.”

Reason Age Funny Night Order Humorous Wake Up Eighty Steak Blenders

Author:Bob Hope

“Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.”

People Age Too Much Forty Eighty

Author:Salvador Dali

“In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.”

Exercise Seventies Eighty

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.”

Ifs Ends Running Wish Levels Five Feet Sky Rocks Higher Thousand Mountain Hundred Rivers Blue South Wave Miles Range South Africa Petty Eighty Tilt

Author:Olive Schreiner

“An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.”

Years Kids Nine New Orleans Boston Eighty Nine Years

Author:George Wein

“In the eighties, I was fortunate to be one of the young art directors that Jerry Roach, creative director at JWT New York, took under his wing. He taught me how to use typography more visually, to push against design norms and not to rely on preconceived notions of what something should look like. I learned that nuance is everything and to agonize over the details. I have Jerry to thank for driving plenty of people crazy over the years!”

“You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.”

People Five Heard Thirty Fifty Forty Sixty Eighty

Book:Capital

Source: Capital

“Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?”

Wells Jobs Simple Answers Percent Management Managers Eighty

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.”

Enemy Survival Survivor Eighty

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.”

Reason Individual Process Roles Five Percent Management Employee Eighty Deficiency Systems And Processes

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days”

Ifs World Persons Moments Around The World Destination Deliberate Eighty Programmes Typhoons

Author:Jules Verne

“One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.”

Thinking Men Humans Wells Hate Human Beings Rooms Growing Hundred I Hate Finished Developing Attributes Transformed Sixty Seventies Ninety Eighty Spirals Oh Well

Author:William Segal

“My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.”

Looks Pieces Baby Dresses Winter Silver Combat Boots Hunts Eighty Jewelry Dolls Sock Colorful Signatures Montana Turquoise Sticking Out Combat Boots

Author:Zoey Deutch

“Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.”

Knows Percent Eighty Hiv

Author:Philip Emeagwali

“No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models predict that new transmissions would be delayed only a few weeks. Worse, it would only drive an increase in the number of cases at the source. Health-care workers who have fallen ill would not be able to get out for treatment, and the international health personnel needed to quell the outbreak would no longer be able to go in.”

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